We investigate the effect of individual exposure to communism on support for democracy
and capitalism. We examine whether this effect varies across different types of communism …

Privatization is under attack. Beginning in the 1980s, thousands of failing state-owned
enterprises worldwide have been turned over to the private sector. But public opinion has …

AFTER DECADES OF POOR PERFORMANCE and inefficient operations by stateowned
enterprises, governments all over the world have earnestly embraced privatization …

This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the
fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech Republic. Although the …

This article links Russians' individual experiences during the late-Gorbachev and early-
Yeltsin years to beliefs they espoused in the Putin era, over a decade later. Drawing on the …

After decades of poor performance and inefficient operations by state owned enterprises,
governments all over the world earnestly embraced privatization. Thousands of state-owned …

In this essay, the authors explore attitudes toward government privatization of electric utilities
across two sets of nations: developed market economies (DMEs) and transition economies …

Privatization has been championed as a means for improving accountability in the public
sector. Yet, relatively little is known empirically about how citizens from different countries …

Over the last 20 years, Mexico redefined the role of the state in its economy through an
ambitious program to liberalize trade, promote efficiency and reduce the size and scope of …

Much research in economics studies the link between institutions and economic
performance (see North 1981; La Porta et al. 1998; Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson …