Cover -- Privatisation and Liberalisation in European Telecommunications -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Restructuring of Public Service Industries in Western Europe -- 1.3 Traditional Telecommunications Regime: Domestic Monopoly/international Cartel -- 1.4 Structural Forces Setting the National Telecommunications Agenda -- 1.5 Comparative Analysis of Telecommunications Restructuring in Europe: Global Forces and Domestic Responses -- 1.6 Conceptual Framework -- 1.7 Explaining Governance Transformation: an Institutional Perspective -- 1.8 Comparing Telecommunications Governance Regimes Across Nations and Across Time: a Research Framework -- 2. International Restructuring and National Strategies and Contingencies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Comparative Public Policy Studies -- 2.3 Comparative Organisation Studies -- 2.4 Comparative Political Economy -- 2.5 Gourevitch's Integrative Approach: Five National Variables -- 2.6 Summary -- 3. Structural Forces Challenging the European National Telecommunications Regime -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Ancien Régime of Telecommunications: Public Monopoly, Ptt and Rent-seeking Coalitions -- 3.3 Technological (r)evolution -- 3.4 Globalisation and Differentiation of Communication Markets -- 3.5 International Deregulation -- 3.6 European Integration -- 3.7 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- 4. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of Telecommunications in the Uk: in Care of the Market? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Wider Political-economic Setting of Uk Telecommunications -- 4.3 The Politics of Economic Adjustment in the Uk.

4.4 Demonopolisation of Telecommunications in the Uk -- 4.5 The Liberalisation of the Uk Telecommunications Market -- 4.6 The Privatisation of British Telecom -- 4.7 Regulatory Reform of Uk Telecommunications Policy -- 4.8 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- 5. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of Telecommunications in the Netherlands: in Pursuit of a New Consensus? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Wider Political-economic Setting of Dutch Telecommunications -- 5.3 The Politics of Economic Adjustment in the Netherlands -- 5.4 Demonopolisation of Telecommunications in the Netherlands -- 5.5 The Liberalisation of the Dutch Telecommunications Market -- 5.6 The Privatisation of Kpn/ptt Telecom -- 5.7 Regulatory Reform of Dutch Telecommunications Policy -- 5.8 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- 6. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of French Telecommunications: Still in Care of the State? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Wider Political-economic Setting of French Telecommunications -- 6.3 The Politics of Economic Adjustment in France -- 6.4 Demonopolisation of Telecommunications in France -- 6.5 The Liberalisation of the French Telecommunications Market -- 6.6 The Privatisation of France Télécom -- 6.7 Regulatory Reform of French Telecommunications Policy -- 6.8 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- 7. A Comparative Institutional Analysis of British, Dutch and French Telecommunications Policy -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of Dutch, French and Uk Telecommunications.

7.3 Explaining the Strategic Responses of the Uk, the Netherlands and France: Domestic Ruling Coalitions and Institutional Constraints -- 7.4 Concluding Remarks -- 8. Convergence And/or Divergence in European Telecommunications Restructuring? -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Structural Forces Forging Convergence and the Persistence of National Diversity -- 8.3 Suggestions for Further Research -- References -- Index.