On different tracks designing railway regulation in Britain and Germany
Title:
On different tracks designing railway regulation in Britain and Germany
Author:
Lodge, Martin, 1972-
ISBN:
9780313013836
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 221 p.)
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: The Institutional Argument; 1 Isomorphism in Regulatory Choice; PART II: Regulatory Change after the First World War; 2 Institutional Weakness and Domain Orientation in Britain; 3 Minimum Insulation and Persistence in Germany; PART III: The Age of Public Ownership; 4 The "Socialization of Transport" and the Search for Efficiency in Britain; 5 Choosing between Domestic "Paths" in West Germany; PART IV: Regulatory Reform and Forms of Privatization.
Abstract:
The governments of several countries are in the process of reforming their regulatory regimes for the railways, and there is much debate about the appropriate regulation of transport in general and railways in particular--especially in light of environmental concerns about traffic congestion and air pollution and economic concerns about the financing of infrastructure and services. This volume investigates how Britain and Germany regulated their railways at three different points in time over the past century: after the First World War, after the Second World War, and in the 1990s. Its central.
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