Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction: Privatising the World? -- Part I International Privatisation Policy -- Chapter 1 The Internationalisation of Privatisation -- Chapter 2 The Legal Techniques of Privatisation -- Chapter 3 Privatization and "Popular Capitalism": The Case of Japan -- Part II The Retreat of the State in the Advanced Industrial Economies -- Chapter 4 Privatization American Style: The "Grand Illusion" -- Chapter 5 Privatising State Owned Housing -- Chapter 6 Commerce Vs. Politics: Compulsory Competitive Tendering and the Determination of Employment Policy in a British Local Authority -- Chapter 7 Steel, State, and Industrial Relations: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations in the Steel Industry -- Chapter 8 The Partial Privatisation of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia -- Part III The Marketisation of the Planned Economies -- Chapter 9 Privatisation and Democratisation in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union -- Chapter 10 The Role of the Banking Sector in the Process of Privatisation -- Chapter 11 Privatization in Hungary: Wishful Thinking or Economic Way-Out? -- Chapter 12 Privatisation in East Germany and the Chance of Workers' Participation: A Problems Approach -- Chapter 13 Privatisation in Poland: People's Capitalism? -- Chapter 14 Post-Soviet Privatisation and Workers' Self-Management -- Chapter 15 On the "Third Sector" in Central and Eastern European Post-Soviet Type Economies -- Chapter 16 Privatization: East Meets West -- Part IV Privatisation, the Public Sector and Development -- Chapter 17 A Comparative Study of the Policies Towards Foreign and Chinese Owned Private Enterprises in the People's Republic of China -- Chapter 18 South Africa: Privatisation and Nationalisation in the Post-Apartheid Economy -- Chapter 19 Privatisation of Public Enterprises in the Less Developed Countries'1 -- Chapter 20 Public Enterprise and Privatisation in Botswana -- Part V Reconstructing the Public Sector -- Chapter 21 Reconstructing the Public Sector: Performance Measurement, Quality Assurance, and Social Accountability -- International Privatisation: Strategies and Practices St. Andrews University, Scotland 12–14 September 1991