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Infrastructure and the Political Economy of Nation Building in Spain, 1720-2010 (Hardcover)
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Infrastructure and the Political Economy of Nation Building in Spain, 1720-2010 (Hardcover)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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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 the status of economic capital
of Spain in recent decades but together with its status as
administrative and political capital Madrid endowed itself as
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 subsidies and
grants that made possible what legislation alone could not achieve.
Second: these policies respond to a regular and continuing
historical pattern in Spanish politics, which began with the
accession to the Spanish Crown of the Bourbon dynasty in the early
eighteenth century. The new dynasty tried hard to translate into
practice the vision of building a Nation like France, with a
Capital like Paris. Third: the enduring strength of this historical
pattern allows us to understand why infrastructural policies in
Spain today are so unique and different from those of surrounding
and comparable countries. Originally published to great acclaim in
Spanish and Catalan, Professor Bel places the historical
perspective in contemporary viewpoint in discussing the Spanish
enthusiasm for high-speed railway, with the prospect of Madrid
being connected with all provincial capitals, albeit while freight
by train has been neglected; a fully centralised model of airport
management that is unmatched among comparable countries; and a
mixed (toll and toll-free motorways) and highly asymmetric
territorial highway funding model for motorways.
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