1st Edition

Privatisation and Liberalisation in European Telecommunications Comparing Britain, the Netherlands and France

By Willem Hulsink Copyright 1999
368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

This book combines a detailed, sector-specific study of comparative telecommunications regimes set in the context of the EC, with an extensive historical and empirical analysis of individual policy management and change as experienced by three diverse regulatory cultures, namely, Britain, the Netherlands and France. By adopting a comprehensive analytical framework based on far-reaching literature,... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. International Restructuring and National Contingencies 3. Structural Forces Challenging the European National Telecommunications Regime 4. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of Telecommunications in the UK: In Care of the Market? 5. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of Telecommunications in the Netherlands: In Pursuit of a New Consensus? 6. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of French Telecommunications: Still in Care of the State? 7. A Comparative Institutional Analysis of British, Dutch and French Telecommunications Policy 8. Convergence and/or Divergence in European Telecommunications Restructuring?

Biography

Willem Hulsink