Planning, Politics and Public Policy: The British, French and Italian Experience

by Edited by Jack Hayward , Michael Watson

• ISBN13: 9780521108164
• ISBN10: 0521108160
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The theme of this collection of essays is the interrelationship between planning conceived as a technique of public economic policy-making and the working of political and administrative institutions in three West European states after the early 1960s. The emphasis is on the impact of the attempts to plan upon political and administrative relationships at national and regional levels and the constraints that they in turn imposed upon planning. An overall judgement is made on the aptitudes of the three countries for planning and on the implications for contemporary capitalism within liberal democracies.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction: change and choice: the agenda of planning

The National Context

France

Britain

Italy

Industrial Policy

Planning and industry in France

Industrial planning in Britain

Italian industrial policy in the framework of economic planning

A comparison of the industrial experiences

Employment and Incomes: Comparative preliminaries

Planning and the French labour market: incomes and industrial training

Planning and the British labour market: incomes and manpower policy, 1965-70

Incomes and employment policies in Italian economic planning

Comparative conclusions

The Regional Dimension

The French regional planning experiments

Regional planning in Britain

Regional planning in Italy

The regional dimension of planning

Land-use Policy

Urban planning in France

Innovation and change in British land-use planning

Land-use planning in Italy

Urban planning and political institutions: an essay in comparison

Transport policy

The use of long-term studies in planning

Planning as the regulatory reproduction of the status quo

Conclusion: A comparative evaluation of planning practice in the liberal democratic state

General bibliography

Index

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