Critical Reason and Political Power in Project Review Activity
Serving Freedom in Planning and Public Administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11903752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Forester (0000-0003-4109-1765, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-83 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557382782628941 |
| OpenAlex | W2037144645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
If planners and public administrators are to conduct well-informed and publicly responsive project reviews, they need accurate information, trustworthy sources, an involved citizenry, and clearly formulated issues to addess. These conditions of project review are precarious, though, for they are shaped by social and political-economic inequalities of power, wealth, information, and expertise. Indeed, planners, administrators, and affected citizens too can ordinarily expect to face systematically and inequitably structured agendas in their practical work of project review. Such biased agenda-setting operates through the management of public consent, belief, trust, and attention to suppress responsive, informed project review discussions. By anticipating such obstacles, planners, public administrators, and citizens alike may counteract such agenda-setting and thus foster democratic and accountable project review processes. Anticipating and encouraging practical responses to inequitable agenda-setting, critical reason may empower radically democratic professional practices and genuinely democratic planning and public administration in the face of anti-democratic political-economic forces
Administration (probate law · Democracy · Face (sociological concept · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Law · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine · Public Administration
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From end-users to policy designers
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Why the Rational Paradigm Persists — The Resistance of Professional Education and Practice to Alternative Forms of Planning
Agenda, power and text
Action Theory and Literary Interpretation
The Policy Analysis-Critical Theory Affair
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2021 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |