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- Title
A troubled continuity: Agencies and path dependence in interwar Swedish railway policy.
- Authors
Eriksson, Martin
- Abstract
This article deals with the abortive attempt by the Swedish Socialisation Commission to reform the Swedish State Railways (SJ) after World War I. It is argued that the decisive opposition to this proposal from SJ and the Swedish Federation of Industries may be related to the fact that railway policy in Sweden, as in many other countries, included a number of conditions that predisposed these agencies to established policy and budgets. In this regard, the article demonstrates how existing railway policy constrained the involved actors to such an extent that they persisted with the established arrangements, even if that decision implied a continued inability to deal with the financial imbalances that gradually undermined the railway sector.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; RAILROADS; GOVERNMENT ownership of railroads; STATENS Jarnvagar; SWEDISH politics &; government; SVERIGES socialdemokratiska arbetareparti (Political Party : Sweden); TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
Journal of Transport History, 2016, Vol 37, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0022-5266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0022526616634717