Planning Systems and Policy Implementation
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Public Policy
- Vol. 3 (4) , 397-418
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x00007534
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.Keywords
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