Diputaciones Provinciales y medios de transporte durante la Restauración. El caso de la Diputación Provincial de Guipúzcoa1/Local public administrations and means of transport during the Restoration. The case of the Provincial Diputation of Guipúzcoa

After the abolition of the Fueros and the signing of the Economic Agreements -- the so-called conciertos economicos --, Basque Diputaciones differed from the rest of their Spanish counterparts in their fiscal powers. Supported by the conciertos, they could set up their own taxation system and invest in those areas, such as transportation, they thought more relevant for the development of the Basque Provinces and the interests of the social group then in power: the bourgeoisie. In this article, the researchers focus on the case of the Diputacion Provincial de Guipuzcoa in the years of the restoration.