Martin Staniland

Government Birds (eBook, PDF)

Air Transport and the State in Western Europe

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Usually described as "state" industries, European airlines have been criticized as uncompetitive, overmanned, and subsidized. But this view begs the question of why and how the state became involved in air transport, as well as the question of whether airlines could have succeeded in Europe and elsewhere without government support. The first comparative study of the complicated history of relations between the state and the air transport industry in Europe, the book travels from the earliest scheduled flights down to the era of liberalization and privatization in the 1990s. Martin Staniland concentrates on four key countries-France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom-exploring both the sources of support for airlines in Europe and the reasons why public ownership lost favor as the industry expanded. In particular, he examines links between the airlines on the one hand and national aircraft builders and ministries concerned with defense, foreign policy, and colonial administration on the other hand. The author concludes by considering the crises and restructuring experienced by national airlines in the 1980s and 1990s, and by exploring the related political battles over liberalization and privatization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216322825
• Artikelnr.: 74842234

Autorenporträt

Martin Staniland is professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Early Birds, 1919-1939
Part 3 Public Ownership, 1945-1980
Chapter 4 The State as Shareholder
Chapter 5 Finance and Regulation
Chapter 6 The End of Empire
Chapter 7 Airlines and Aircraft Manufacturers
Chapter 8 Commercialism and the Culture of Production
Part 9 Liberalization and Privatization, 1980-1999
Chapter 11 The United Kingdom
Chapter 12 The Netherlands
Chapter 13 Germany
Chapter 14 France
Chapter 15 Conclusion