Abstract
Through the influence of neoliberal ideas, many critical infrastructures that used to be under public ownership have been opened up for market competition. Using the Swedish railway system as a case, this paper empirically explores whether such reforms have given rise to common-pool resource problems, and discusses possible implications. The results show that institutional restructuring has created challenges related to balancing the use of the infrastructure with a sufficient level of maintenance. The paper concludes that the main value of analysing critical infrastructures from the perspective of common-pool resources is the possibility of juxtaposing the way organizational and institutional interactions across scales generate both short-term gains and long-term negative side effects influencing reliability and safety.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 282-292 |
Journal | Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 2019 Feb 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
- Economic Geography
Free keywords
- common-pool resource
- critical infrastructure
- deregulation
- reliability
- safety
- tragedy of the commons