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On Different Tracks: Designing Railway Regulation in Britain and Germany
This volume investigates how Britain and Germany regulated their railways at three different points in time over the past century. Its central focus is the design of regulatory regimes and the impact of institutional factors on the selection of design ideas and on processes of isomorphism.
Author(s) | By Martin Lodge. |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 232 |
Published in | United States |
Published | 30 Nov 2002 |
Availability | Not yet available |
This volume investigates how Britain and Germany regulated their railways at three different points in time over the past century. Its central focus is the design of regulatory regimes and the impact of institutional factors on the selection of design ideas and on processes of isomorphism.
Introduction Isomorphism in Regulatory Choice Regulatory Change after the First World War Institutional Weakness and Domain Orientation in Britain Minimum Insulation and Persistence in Germany The Age of Public Ownership The "Socialisation of Transp
MARTIN LODGE is Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science.