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>STATE INTERVENTION IN THE RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN, 1830-1985: TOWARD A THEORY OF INCREMENTAL AND STEPWISE GROWTH OF STATISM IN ADVANCED CAPITALISM (NATIONALIZATION, MARXISM, REGULATION, INSTITUTIONALISM, POLICY).
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STATE INTERVENTION IN THE RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN, 1830-1985: TOWARD A THEORY OF INCREMENTAL AND STEPWISE GROWTH OF STATISM IN ADVANCED CAPITALISM (NATIONALIZATION, MARXISM, REGULATION, INSTITUTIONALISM, POLICY).
The dissertation conducts a sequential matrix analysis of the major state interventions into the rail industry in Britain and the United States between 1830 and 1985. Evidence suggests an incrementally statist trend which cannot be explained merely as a response to either capitalist or worker interests or state institutional dynamics alone. Rather, it appears that an alternative hypothesis for intervention trends is warranted which utilizes a synthetic application of both classic Marxist and Institutionalist variables.;Specifically, the explanatory value of the three following variables is probed: the "requirements of accumulation", the "balance of class mobilization" and the "cumulative institutional powers of the state". It is argued that while crises regarding the requirements of accumulation often--though not predominately--precipitate state interventions, they are just as often not served by those interventions. Moreover, while mobilizational stalemates between rail companies and workers as well as small shippers often force increases in state governance, the state increasingly comes to dominate the policy initiation and enactment process itself.;Finally, the cumulative powers of the state are seen to progressively change the causal problematic of state intervention such that it is possible to delineate six relatively distinct causal stages in the evolution of railroad intervention. That is, it does not seem possible to define a causal model for intervention in any ahistoric, generic sense. On the other hand, this investigation is taken as an indication of the necessity of developing theories of political economy which emphasize both a class struggle perspective and the possibility of a future "state mode of production".
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