How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (American Government and Public Policy),Used

How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (American Government and Public Policy),Used

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Governments throughout the world confront enormous challenges when divesting. Whether it is poorperforming 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. In the U.S., the worst economic problem since the Great Depression forced the government to recreate and reshape private property on an immense scale. In Germany, melding East and West Germany involved converting an entire national economy that employed more than four million people. In each case, unassuming public agencies handled two of the largest public sales of assets in this century.Cassell identifies the importance and effects of managerial structures and of national institutions legislatures and executives on the outcomes of the reform efforts.This book will be of interest to those interested in alternatives to traditional publicsector 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.

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