Privatizing public enterprises in the European Union 1960–2002: ideological, pragmatic, inevitable?

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Neoliberalism and the geographies of marketization (2016, background): “Many new state-market actors first emerged with privatization in the 1980s and early 1990s, especially as a result of the need to create new regulatory agencies (Clifton et al., 2006).”
Did New Public Management Matter? An empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size (2015, background): “Drives to slim down the public sector can be traced back to the 1980s, both through outright sales (Clifton et al. 2006) and through the application of management techniques borrowed from the private sector.”