Planning in England: new public management, network governance or post-democracy?
- 2016
- p.354-372.
- Jun
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 (1997ﾖ2010) is contrasted with the Conservative-led Coalition government (2010ﾖ2015). 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. - Reprodu