Planning in England : New Public Management, Network Governance or Post-Democracy?
By: Laffin, Martin
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ArticlePublisher: Los Angeles : Sage, June 2016International Review of Administrative Sciences 82, 2, p. 354-372Abstract: 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
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
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