Multirational Management in Regional Public Transport

Mirco Gross and Lukas Summermatter

Chapter 9 in Multirational Management, 2014, pp 142-153 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Like public transport as a whole, regional public transport operates in a field of tension between government and the market. In concrete tendering decisions, there is a clash between the political rationality and the “public transport rationality”. The hierarchical relationship between the executive politician (minister) in charge and the office with the specialist competence gives rise to a “multirationality in the shade of monorationality” in that the politician will claim power to make the decision if it becomes too irrational from his perspective. The administration defends its rationality through concerted non-transparency and increases in costs for politicians’ use of political rationality to control processes informed by public transport rationality.

Keywords: Public Transport; Political Risk; Administrative Level; Regional Transport; Political Level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137444424_9

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