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The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail
The Economics and Politics of High Speed Rail: Lessons from Experiences Abroad, by Daniel Albalate and Germa Bel, introduces the main questions policy makers and scholars should examine when considering and studying HSR implementation, with particular emphasis on the US s recent interest in this technology and possible application in California. This study is a rigorous investigation of the economic and political challenges and ramifications of implementing new public transportation technology and its effects on taxpayers."
Evaluating High-Speed Rail
High-speed Rail (HSR) is a technological transportation advance that has raised the interest of policy makers and researchers worldwide. The study of High-speed Rail is a recent phenomenon but has received increasing attention due to the extension of this mode of transportation around the globe. Evaluating High-Speed Rail contains some of the most recent and cutting edge studies on HSR from different disciplines. The book is organized around a variety of key topics related to the evaluation of High Speed Rail projects and experiences. These topics include: the economic appraisal and evaluation of High-Speed Rail projects; the evaluation of indirect and direct effects of High-Speed Rail; its ...
Disdain, Distrust and Dissolution
Support for independence in Catalonia has increased rapidly over the past decade. This dynamic is the result of Catalans in political, economic and academic fields who no longer believe that the necessary reform of Spanish government is a viable option in terms of achieving an acceptable arrangement for Catalonia to stay within the Spanish state. Rejecting assimilation on the basis that a uni-national state is unworkable for a host of structural reasons, not least the lack of reform progress to date, secession is viewed as the preferred choice for the betterment of the region's people. This book dissects the problems of the relationship between Catalonia and Spain. The author investigates th...
Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this book provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the contributions in the book identify lines of research that invite further investigation, namely: problems related to the degree of risk transfer; the challenges posed by renegotiation; and evaluation of PPPs’ results. The content of this book will be of interest for scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers. This book was published as a special issue of Local Government Studies.
Infrastructure and the Political Economy of Nation Building in Spain, 1720-2010
This book sets out to explain the very particular characteristics of Spanish infrastructure policy. The capital city of Madrid plays a central role: it not only achieved status as the economic capital of Spain in recent decades, but, together with its status as the administrative and political capital, Madrid has become the absolute capital. The challenge is to understand why such development has taken place. First, radial policies in transport infrastructure, which were primarily subordinate to political and administrative objectives, could not be supported by the dynamics of economic activity. For that reason, these policies demanded the use of extensive budgetary resources in the form of ...
España, capital París
Nueva edición actualizada y ampliada del libro que ha puesto en jaque la España radial. Este es el relato de un viaje, no exento de sorpresas, por los tres últimos siglos de la historia de España. Germà Bel se remonta para ello a 1561, año en el que Madrid es designada sede permanente de la Corte de los Austrias. Pero el recorrido se inicia propiamente a principios del siglo XVIII, cuando, tras la guerra de Sucesión, Madrid deviene capital política y Felipe V fija en su centro el kilómetro cero de las comunicaciones españolas. La apoteosis del nuevo Estado radial llegará en las últimas décadas con la consagración de la capitalidad económica de Madrid, convertida finalmente y c...
Aeroports i Poder
En comptes d'un model de gestió aeroportuari amb criteris empresarials objectius i adequats al segle XXI, els diferents governs espanyols han optat fins ara per un model de gestió integrat i sotmès a un control centralitzat. Aquest model ha esdevingut totalment anacrònic, i afavoreix la manca de transparència i l'arbitrarietat en la gestió. I, en última instància, permet subordinar a les prioritats de la capital política, Madrid, el desenvolupament i creixement econòmic dels diferents territoris.Amb objectivitat i rigor, Germà Bel i Xavier Fageda, professors de la Universitat de Barcelona, fan un repàs exhaustiu dels trets principals de la gestió aeroportuària a nivell local i ...
The Economics and Politics of High-speed Rail
The technological revolution linked to high speed rail (HSR) has been accompanied by myths and claims about its contribution to society and the economy. Although HSR is unquestionably a technological advance that has become a symbol of modernity, this review and analysis of the international experiences shows that the conditions necessary to have a positive impact, economically, socially and environmentally, are enormously restrictive. The Economics and Politics of High Speed Rail: Lessons from Experiences Abroad, by Daniel Albalate and Germ Bel, introduces the main questions policy makers and scholars should examine when considering and studying HSR implementation, with particular emphasis ...
Lifelines of Our Society
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives. Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures—focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred years—that considers all their many paradoxes. He illustrates three aspects of infrastructure: their de...
