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Planning Systems and Policy Implementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Robin Hambleton
Robin Hambleton
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School for Advanced Urban Studies, University of Bristol
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Abstract

This article relates two developing themes in planning theory and practice in government: the proliferation in recent years in Britain of policy planning systems and the concern in a number of countries with processes of implementation. The growth of policy planning systems can be analysed from a number of perspectives: (1) procedural planning theory; (2) interorganisational theory and (3) the theory of fiscal crisis. The paper discusses five major factors which shape the implementation process in relation to policy planning systems: (1) the policy message; (2) the multiplicity of agents; (3) perspectives and ideologies; (4) resources; (5) the politics of planning.

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Articles on Policy Planning Systems
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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 1983, pp. 397 - 418
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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