Privatization and Restructuring of Electricity Provision

by Daniel Czamanski

Overview

Before the energy crisis of the 1970s, electricity provision was a non-issue the world over, but the crisis of 1973 induced policymakers worldwide to consider private and restructured electricity provision as an alternative to unified, publicly and privately owned systems. Czamanski examines arguments and experiences concerning the divestitute of state-owned enterprises in a variety of political and technological contexts. He also considers restructuring under the Thatcher government in Great Britian, the reforms drafted by Czamanski in Israel, and restructuring in the United States as well as events in Norway, the Pacific Rim, Canada, and the developing countries. In addition, he considers the advantages and disadvantages of privatizing through theoretical discussion and by exploring experiences in various countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275956875
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/1999
Series:	Privatizing Government: An Interdisciplinary Series
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

DANIEL CZAMANSKI is Professor of Urban Economics at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and a member of the Klutznick Center for Urban and Regional Studies./e He has also been a faculty member at Ohio State University and an Institute Fellow in Economics at the National Regulatory Research Institute. As an advisor to two ministers of energy in Israel, he prepared the draft legislation to reform the electricity sector in Israel.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Privatization Issue—Objectives
The Technology of Producing and Managing Electric Systems
Political and Economic Constraints
Electric Thatcherism in the United Kingdom
Israel
Incremental Restructuring in the United States
The World Beyond
Concluding Remarks
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Critically maps of one set of complex policies that are increasingly adopted to provide investment for providing electricity. The critique is not of privatization itself compared to other solutions, but of the effectiveness of various decision- making processes by which governments or cooperative groups privatize the electric supply, the process of changing the rules for how decisions are made, the strategic and tactical arguments at the background and foreground of public debates, and conflicting interests and how they are resolved in the public arena. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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