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

The editors have brought together contributions from specialists in the three countries.

Jack Hayward (Edited by), Michael Watson (Edited by)

9780521108164, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 April 2009

512 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.75 kg

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.

List of contributors
Preface
Introduction: change and choice: the agenda of planning Jack Hayward
Part I. The National Context: 1. France Yves Ullmo
2. Britain Trevor Smith
3. Italy Gianfranco Pasquino and Umberto Pecchini
Part II. Industrial Policy: 4. Planning and industry in France Jean-Jacques Bonnaud
5. Industrial planning in Britain Trevor Smith
6. Italian industrial policy in the framework of economic planning Gioachino Fraenkel
7. A comparison of the industrial experiences Stephen Young
Part III. Employment and Incomes: Comparative preliminaries Jack Hayward and John Corina: 8. Planning and the French labour market: incomes and industrial training Jack Hayward
9. Planning and the British labour market: incomes and manpower policy, 1965–70 John Corina
10. Incomes and employment policies in Italian economic planning Isidoro Franco Mariani
Comparative conclusions Jack Hayward
Part IV. The Regional Dimension: 11. The French regional planning experiments Pierre Gremion and Jean-Pierre Worms
12. Regional planning in Britain Maurice Wright and Stephen Young
13. Regional planning in Italy Valerio Selan and Rosita Donnini
14. The regional dimension of planning Michael Watson
Part V. Land-use Policy: 15. Urban planning in France Francois d'Arcy and Bruno Jobert
16. Innovation and change in British land-use planning Jim Sharpe
17. Land-use planning in Italy Attilio Bastianini and Giuliano Urbani
18. Urban planning and political institutions: an essay in comparison Bruno Jobert
Part VI: 19. Transport policy Jean Claude Theonig and Nigel Despicht
Part VII: 20. The use of long-term studies in planning Bernard Cazes
Part VIII: 21. Planning as the regulatory reproduction of the status quo Lucien Nizard
Conclusion: A comparative evaluation of planning practice in the liberal democratic state Michael Watson
General bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP]