Positive Theory of Planning
The Social Choice Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5117560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tore Sager (0000-0001-5781-621X, Department of Transport Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 629-647 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a3319 |
| OpenAlex | W2122820529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 46 |
Most planning theory is normative and does not aim at explaining the design of planning processes. However, once the relationships between organisational characteristics and the various modes of planning are established, these connections can be used for developing positive planning theory. The problem is to explain why an agency practises a particular mode of planning (synoptic, incremental, etc), or even why it performs a specific variant of such a mode. It is argued that the impossibility theorems of social choice provide a useful platform for attacking such problems. In order to explain the practice of planning agencies, a scheme for linking agency properties and planning modes is combined with alternative strategies for resolving dilemmas of agency decision-making. A brief survey of other theoretical approaches to the construction of positive planning theory opens the discussion and places the social choice analysis in a theoretical context
Business · Economics · Epistemology · Impossibility · Management science · Normative · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Planning and Valuation
Collaborative Planning in Perspective
Privatization and Intermunicipal Contracting
Insourcing and Outsourcing
On the nature and foundations of planning theory
On the Project of 'Institutional Transformation' in the Planning Field
Neo-Institutional Economics and Planning Theory
Reversing privatization, rebalancing government reform
Participatory turn - and down-turn - in Finland's regional forest programme process
Experiment-based policy change over time
The ‘Collaborative Planning Turn’ in China
A Sociological Institutionalist Approach to the Study of Innovation in Governance Capacity
Managing Markets for Public Service
Local government reform
Beyond the market versus planning dichotomy
Planning Style and Agency Properties
Managerial Dilemmas
Parallel Systems
A Transaction Cost Theory of Planning
Strategy-proofness and Arrow's conditions
Manipulation of Voting Schemes
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Introduction
Teaching Planning Theory
Loyalty and the Impossibility of Paretian Advocacy Planning
Bureaucracy as Externalized Self-System
Elements of an economic justification for municipal zoning
Putting one over on the boss
The positive theory of legislative institutions
Public Choice, Pigouvian and Coasian Planning Theory
Planning Theory and the Philosophy of Planning
Critical Rationalism and Planning Methodology
The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal
Hierarchical Controls, Professional Norms, Local Constituencies, and Budget Maximization
When Do Rules of Procedure Matter
The Policy Process and Organizational Form
Formal Theory and the Institutions of Governance
A Social Choice Perspective on Expertise and Authority in Bureaucracy
Formal Models of Bureaucracy
Success in planning
New debates in urban planning
Planning Style and Agency Properties
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |