{"id":5180,"date":"2012-04-20T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2012-04-20T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:58:39","slug":"the-politics-of-privatization-wealth-and-power-in-post-communist-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2012\/04\/the-politics-of-privatization-wealth-and-power-in-post-communist-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Privatization: Wealth and Power in Post-communist Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/politics\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,1058\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Politics\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics-198x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics-677x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5131\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Politics of Privatization: Wealth and Power in Post-communist Europe cover\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics-624x943.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/Politics.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>by John Gould, <em>CC Associate Professor of Political Science<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this story of post-communist politics gone wrong, Gould explores privatization\u2019s\u00a0role in the scramble for wealth and power in post-communist Europe. Does democratic development facilitate effective capitalist reform, or vice versa? How do political legacies shape privatization choices? Is simultaneous transition feasible? Offering new empirical information and nuanced political analysis, this in-depth study reveals a surprising relationship between political liberalization and economic reform.<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN-13: 978-1588267580. Published by Lynne Rienner, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Gould, CC Associate Professor of Political Science In this story of post-communist politics gone wrong, Gould explores privatization\u2019s\u00a0role in the scramble for wealth and power in post-communist Europe. Does democratic development facilitate effective capitalist reform, or vice versa? How do political legacies shape privatization choices? Is simultaneous transition feasible? Offering new empirical information&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2012","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}