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"Governments throughout the world confront enormous challenges when divesting. Whether it is poor-performing bank loans in Japan and Korea, military bases in the United States, or real estate in Eastern Europe, the challenge of public divestment is more than just a question of how to map a path to economic efficiency.
Conventional wisdom in public management and privatization literature says that the execution of such enormous tasks as divestment is typically done poorly, and that the government strategy is likely to be inefficient.".
"Mark Cassell argues that privatization must be understood as a political and administrative puzzle rather than simply an exercise in economic efficiency. This study of two successful divestment agencies - the U.S.
Resolution Trust Corporation and the German Treuhandanstalt - presents a complex understanding of the two agencies' performance in privatizing hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two very different crises, the savings and loan debacle in the United States and unification in Germany.".
"This book will be of interest to those interested in alternatives to traditional public-sector structures, electoral connections to bureaucracies, comparative political economy, and the historic events of the aftermath of the savings and loan crisis and German unification. It is crucial reading for policy and public administration practitioners and scholars alike."--BOOK JACKET.
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Privatization, Disinvestment, Resolution Trust Corporation (U.S.), Germany. Treuhandanstalt, Germany, Privatisation, Désinvestissement, Privatisering, Openbare dienstverlening, Treuhandanstalt, Resolution Trust Corporation, Privatisierung, Resolution Trust Corporation (États-Unis), DC Resolution Trust Corporation Washington, DC Washington, University of South Alabama, Berlin, Washington (D.C.), BMBF-Statusseminar gndShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany
2003, Georgetown University Press
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How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (American Governance & Public Policy)
August 2003, Georgetown University Press
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in English
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1589010086 9781589010086
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How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (American Governance and Public Policy.)
April 2002, Georgetown University Press
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"This is a story of how two remarkable public agencies managed two of the greatest public sales of assets in the twentieth century."
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