Public Service Liberalism : Telecommunications and Transitions in Public Policy

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

Identifying a form of government intervention in social and economic affairs called public service liberalism, Alan Stone looks to that ideology to confront the problems of the 1990s and beyond. He shows in this fascinating case study that the policy has been effective in the past: the American tele...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stone, Alan, 1931-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Telephone > Government policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
Telephone > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Telephone > Government policy > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Identifying a form of government intervention in social and economic affairs called public service liberalism, Alan Stone looks to that ideology to confront the problems of the 1990s and beyond. He shows in this fascinating case study that the policy has been effective in the past: the American telephone industry from its inception until 1934 is an illustration of how public service liberalism served both economic efficiency and a complex structure of public values. Stone depicts the stages by which public service liberalism was replaced by less adequate policies and suggests ways that it c.
Notas:Cover; Contents.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9781400862009

Ejemplares similares