Why does policy change? Lessons from British transport policy, 1945-99
Details:
- Author(s) Dudley, Geoffrey F, & Jeremy J Richardson
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 262pp
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Government & business & industry policy
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
'Uses detailed case-studies from British transport policy since 1945 to examine and explain the dynamics of major policy change'. Has chapters: 'Government, interest groups and policy change'; 'Dynamics of the rail 'hollow core' - the prelude to Beeching'; 'Occupying the 'hollow core''; 'Roadbuilding as a policy idea and a weak advocacy coalition 1900-54'; 'Ministers and motorways'; 'Undermining a hegemonic policy community'; ''Roads for prosperity' versus 'sustainable mobility'; 'Destruction of Roads for Prosperity'; 'The 'hollow core' revisited - rail privatisation, 1987-92'; 'Why does policy change?'