Laffin, Martin
Planning in England : New Public Management, Network Governance or Post-Democracy? - Los Angeles : Sage, June 2016
Three frameworks New Public Management, Network Governance and Post-Democracy are applied to identify and explain the direction of institutional travel in the field of land-use planning in England. These frameworks are used to assess the extent to which land-use planning has been centralized or decentralized over the last 20 years. The last Labour government (19972010) is contrasted with the Conservative-led Coalition government (20102015). Labour introduced planning policies and an underpinning regional administrative machinery that the latter has replaced with a localist planning system and sub-regional Local Enterprise Partnerships. The article concludes that both Labour and the Conservative-led Coalition embarked on policies that involved increased centralization, but that the centralization took different forms, though both parties denied sub-state institutions the political or other resources to challenge the central government in Westminster
Planning in England : New Public Management, Network Governance or Post-Democracy? - Los Angeles : Sage, June 2016
Three frameworks New Public Management, Network Governance and Post-Democracy are applied to identify and explain the direction of institutional travel in the field of land-use planning in England. These frameworks are used to assess the extent to which land-use planning has been centralized or decentralized over the last 20 years. The last Labour government (19972010) is contrasted with the Conservative-led Coalition government (20102015). Labour introduced planning policies and an underpinning regional administrative machinery that the latter has replaced with a localist planning system and sub-regional Local Enterprise Partnerships. The article concludes that both Labour and the Conservative-led Coalition embarked on policies that involved increased centralization, but that the centralization took different forms, though both parties denied sub-state institutions the political or other resources to challenge the central government in Westminster
