Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword and overview -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The background -- 1.2 (Another) delimitation of the subject -- 1.3 Managerial power and the bogey of spontaneous privatisation...

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