Change in economic policy paradigm: Privatization and state capture in Poland

Arbeitspapier

Piotr Kozarzewski and Maciej Ba±towski analyse the causes and manifestations of Poland's recent shift in economic policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects of the privatization policy and point to a large unfinished agenda in ownership transformation that has had an adverse impact on the institutional setup of the Polish state, creating grounds for rent seeking and cronyism, which, in turn, impede the pace of privatization. They find out that it is the increasing capture of the state by rent-seeking groups, and not, contrary to popular opinion, the global financial crisis, that most contributes to the growing statist trends of Poland's economic policy.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-83-7178-640-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CASE Working Papers ; No. 3 (127)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy ; Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions
• Subject: Poland ; privatization ; economic policy ; post-communist transition ; crony capitalism ; rent seeking ; role of the state

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kozarzewski, Piotr ; Bałtowski, Maciej
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE)
• (where): Warsaw
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/169280
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET