Over the last two decades, education privatization has become a widespread phenomenon,
affecting most education systems and giving place to a consistent increase in private school …

Despite the wave of privatisation in recent decades, enterprises under government control
still account for a large part of assets and employment in several countries and particularly …

ABSTRACT The 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis renewed interest in New Public
Management tools. Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation are the two most common …

This paper contributes to Comparative Political Economy (CPE) by develo** an analytical
concept of corporate welfare. Corporate welfare—the transfer of public funds and benefits to …

The quality of institutions is at the core of the differences in the growth of income and
productivity of nations. A growing body of evidence shows how this is also true at the firm …

We present new evidence on whether political parties still matter in economic policy-making.
We investigate four policy instruments (changes in product market regulation (PMR) …

While government intervention in the economy has decreased in recent decades, the
literature disagrees on the causes of this development. This article provides a …

The privatization of public utilities marked a turning point in European capitalism, resha**
the relationship between the public and private spheres of the economy. However, the …

Why did ordoliberal Germany unconditionally privatize its aerospace and defense industries
in the 1980s, whereas the neoliberal government in the United Kingdom established …

There is a consensus over Europe's transformation into a highly competitive economy
through a series of ambitious pro-competition reforms. However, both the European …