Why Does Policy Change? : Lessons from British Transport Policy 1945-99 (Hardcover)

1. Government, interest groups and policy change 2. The dynamics of the rail 'hollow core': the prelude to Beeching 3. Occupying the 'hollow core': the Beeching era at British Rail 1960-65 4. Roadbuilding as a policy idea and a weak advocacy coalition 1900-54 5. Ministers and motorways: the making of a hegemonic policy community 1954-59 6. Undermining a hegemonis policy community: trunk roads and the first wave of environmentalsim 1973-79 7. 'Roads for prosperity' versus 'sustainable mobility': new challenges and confrontations 1989-93 8. The destruction of 'roads for prosperity': from hegemony to ignominy 1993-99 9. The 'hollow core' revisisted: rail privatisation 1987-92 10. Why does policy change? 'The four I's' and the significance of time