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dc.contributor.author | Khakee, Anna | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-19T09:14:16Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-19T09:14:16Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Khakee, A. (2018). Democracy over power? The democratic decision-making process in the case of the attempted privatization of Estonia's power production. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 51(4), 361-373. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/49779 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The suspense-filled attempted partial privatization of the Narva Power Plants in the neo-liberal darling Estonia involved a rich cast, from trade unions and local scientists, via Estonian courts and ombudsmen to international consulting firms, major global banks and the US government. More important, a detailed single case study on the democratic decision-making process in this privatization case makes it possible to go beyond common generalizations regarding the consequences of neo-liberalism for democratic processes. It shows that purported proponents of economic neo-liberalism such as the US government sometimes use their arguments to advance the narrow business interests of politically well-connected firms. Established private firms can behave in a more rent-seeking manner than publicly owned, ex-communist companies. Liberal economic principles of open competition and a level playing-field are at times used by actors in the democratic process to question top-down, opaque economic decisions. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Ltd | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Privatization -- Estonia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Electric power production -- Estonia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Democracy -- Estonia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Decision making -- Estonia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Neoliberalism -- Estonia | en_GB |
dc.title | Democracy over power? The democratic decision-making process in the case of the attempted privatization of Estonia's power production | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2018.10.004 | - |
dc.publication.title | Communist and Post-Communist Studies | en_GB |
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