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Concorde and Dissent: Explaining High Technology Project Failures in Britain and France - Softcover

Feldman, Elliot

 
9780521108263: Concorde and Dissent: Explaining High Technology Project Failures in Britain and France
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521108268 ISBN 13: 9780521108263
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book is a study of the joint British and French construction of Concorde, and their separate projects to build new international airports in London (the repeatedly abandoned third airport) and Paris (Charles de Gaulle). Conventional explanations of these projects, all of which can be seen as 'failures' in some sense, contrast French professional and rational planning expertise with the amateurishness of the British. Professor Feldman challenges such stereotypes, arguing instead that policy failures in the two countries can be explained in terms of political instability. His book is unique in developing such detailed, controlled case studies for the comparison of political systems, and offers new insights into public policy-making in Britain and France.

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Book Description

This book is unique in developing such detailed, controlled case studies for the comparison of political systems, and offers new insights into public policy-making in Britain and France.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521108268
ISBN 13 
9780521108263
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
220