Rational Planning and Politics: The Example of Local Authority Corporate Planning

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This article examines one of the criticisms of local authority corporate planning which is that it is ill-suited to the local political process. The examination is in three parts. Firstly the corporate planning literature is reviewed to see what view of politics it reveals. Secondly an ideal corporate planning process based on the concept of rationality is compared with a political process which is made up of differences in perspective based on consumption cleavages. Thirdly the interaction of these two processes is examined by looking at the experience of corporate planning in two local authorities. The conclusion is that the criticism is a fair one and that in consequence local authority planning processes will in future be more closely integrated with the political system.

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