CAPITALIST REGULATION AND RESCALING OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT GOVERNANCE: A CASE OF NIGERIA

Fujio Mizuoka and Kohei Shimono

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2013, vol. 54, issue 2, 251-277

Abstract: Taking a multi-scalar approach to capitalism from the perspective of recent economic geography and regarding public transport as an element of capitalist regulation, this study compares the provincial and national spatial scales. Rescaling occurs when provinces assume responsibility for supplying transport services to achieve provincial-scale regulation. This process occurs when the province is better equipped than the state to provide the intensity and efficiency of governance needed to regulate services. Comparison of the National Railway of Nigeria, falling under the federal government and LAMATA falling under the province of Lagos, empirically ascertains rescaling in regulation and identifies .the cycle of democratic governance..

Keywords: rescaling; Nigeria; the Nigerian Railway Corporation; LAMATA; capitalist regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.15057/26015

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