Making Tracks: The Politics of Local Rail Transport (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Docherty, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138324701 ISBN 13: 9781138324701

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

First published in 1999, this book contains case studies of rail transport policy-making in two UK Passenger Transport Authority areas and reviews the factors informing such policy-making. It contributes to transport geography by explaining why the actual policies implemented in Starthclyde and Merseyside were pursued, and to the continuing development of the political science theory of ‘the urban policy regime’ by analysing the differences in policy development attributable to the different ‘city-regional’ (Strathclyde) and ‘public choice’ (Merseyside) geographical structures of local governance. The book demonstrates that these differences in the spatial organisation of local institutions play a powerful role in determining the operation of the local ‘regime’ of policy-makers, the form of final policy outputs, and the level of public accountability achieved.

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Iain Docherty

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138324701
• ISBN 13: 9781138324701
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328