caa a22 4500 388068566 CHVBK 20180307125140.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700024050 doi S0022050700024050 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700024050 Sicotte Richard Richard Sicotte is Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T3A 28, Canada. E-mail: rsicotte@ucalgary.ca. Economic Crisis and Political Response: The Political Economy of the Shipping Act of 1916 [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Sicotte] Governments often respond to crisis situations with radical economic policies. The Shipping Act of 1916 created a government-owned shipping company. This significant departure from prior policy arose in the atmosphere of crisis surrounding the war in Europe. The Wilson Administration was able to use political institutions to its advantage and ensure that alternative, more moderate proposals would not be considered by the legislature. Initially thwarted by a filibuster, the administration was forced to compromise in order to maintain party loyalty and pass the bill in 1916. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 861-884 0022-0507 59:4<861 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024050 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024050 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sicotte Richard Richard Sicotte is Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T3A 28, Canada. E-mail: rsicotte@ucalgary.ca NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 861-884 0022-0507 59:4<861 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge