A comparative examination of the effects of different constitutional and legal traditions on privatization. The authors focus on the UK and France, suggesting that the British Government was remarkably free from limitation, whereas the French were constrained by their written constitution.
Discusses the policies, practices and outcomes of privatization in six transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, paying particular attention to cross-country differences and to interrelations between the processes of privatisation and the political transition from communism to a new system.