The Underlying Assumptions of Advocacy Planning: Pluralism and Reform
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Institute of Planners
- Vol. 40 (1) , 38-47
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01944367408977445
Abstract
This article examines the underlying assumption of “political pluralism,” which has characterized the theory and practice of advocacy planning since its inception. In particular, political pluralism is cast as a prevailing social myth which has become the modus operandi of all planning activities in the United States. The growing concentration of economic and political power centers, the alienation of people from the decisionmaking process, the effective lack of meaningful access into the political process by groups and individuals, and the failure of conventional, electoral politics are identified as the primary indicators by which the failure of political pluralism and advocacy planning can be measured. Finally, several general conclusions are drawn which suggest that planners consider the so-called “radical” analysis of planning in the development of alternatives to the existing institutional setting.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- Advocacy Aimd the Urban PoorJournal of the American Institute of Planners, 1969
- Reflections on Advocacy PlanningJournal of the American Institute of Planners, 1968
- ADVOCACY AND PLURALISM IN PLANNINGJournal of the American Institute of Planners, 1965
- Two Faces of PowerAmerican Political Science Review, 1962