| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Lena Andersson-Skog and Olle Krantz, editors. Institutions and the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850–1990. Nantucket, Mass.: Science History Publications. 1999. Pp. xix, 359. $49.95.

The transport and communications industries are heavily politicized; government ownership and regulation have been constant themes across time and place, resulting from their strategic importance and the internecine struggles between many interest groups. Transport history has perhaps been under-researched in terms of its political economy. This volume, edited by Lena Andersson-Skog and Olle Krantz, concentrates on the interaction between the public and private sectors in the development and management of transport and communication systems. It is therefore a welcome addition to the extensive literature on the sector. Although empirically wide-ranging, key ideas are discussed regularly throughout the book. They distil into two main themes: the regulation of transport industries and the political procedures of transport development. Several authors look at the contemporary concern with regulating privatized transport industries and turn to historical experience for guidance. A fear of monopoly and social instability have influenced decisions to regulate. The political process of transport development has been shaped by competing elements including economic need, national prestige, and the role of lobbying by interest groups attempting to capture the process. . . .

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