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- Title
The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe.
- Authors
Valdez, Jimena
- Abstract
Platform firms have been depicted as having structural and instrumental power and being able to prevail in regulatory battles. This article, in contrast, documents how they have often adapted to regulations and provide different services across locales. I show that platform firms have a specific type of power, infrastructural power, that stems from their position as mediators across a variety of actors. This power, I argue, is shaped by pre‐existing regulations and the firms' strategic response, that I call "contentious compliance": a double movement of adapting to existing regulations, while continuing to challenge them. I apply this framework to the expansion and regulation of Uber in New York City (US), Madrid (Spain), and Berlin (Germany).
- Subjects
STATE power; UBER Technologies Inc.; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Regulation & Governance, 2023, Vol 17, Issue 1, p177
- ISSN
1748-5983
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rego.12456