The Financing of Highways
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9768002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T H Macdonald (Bureau of Public Roads), Terri MacDonald (0000-0001-6678-7078, United States Department of Transportation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1924 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 160-168 |
| Publication date | 1924-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271622411600128 |
| OpenAlex | W2041762469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
principles that will endure and those that are temporary and will be abandoned. Examined in retrospect, the financing of highways through legislation presents a most interesting parallel to the social fabric of the time, with this modification that seems to be common to the Anglo-Saxon methods in governmental affairs: certain concepts persist in the laws long after their real abandonment by the public for the reason they no longer serve. Sound principles of legislation have an unceasing conflict with political expediency. For more than three hundred years the English people have been trying to solve this question of highway finance always facing this conflict, always retaining much legislation that is bad along with the good, and always failing in their laws to reach far enough to overtake the needs and demands of
Abandonment (legal · Business · Economics · Law and economics · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Finance · Law · Public Administration · Public-Private Partnership Projects
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |