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Multirational Management in Regional Public Transport

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  • Mirco Gross
  • Lukas Summermatter

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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.

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  • Mirco Gross & Lukas Summermatter, 2014. "Multirational Management in Regional Public Transport," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kuno Schedler & Johannes Rüegg-Stürm (ed.), Multirational Management, chapter 9, pages 142-153, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-44442-4_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137444424_9
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