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Author Pennington, Mark

Title Planning and the Political Market : Public Choice and the Politics of Government Failure
Published London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Acronyms; Acknowledgements; 1 Planning and the Political Market: The Rise of Public Choice Theory; 2 The Impact of Planning; 3 Interest Groups, Collective Action and Planning; 4 Budgets, Bureaucrats and Planning; 5 Planning and the Political Market: Voter-Centred versus Special-Interest Explanations; 6 Planning and the Politics of Growth; 7 Land Use Planning: Public or Private Choice?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Planning and the Political Market argues that the enthusiasm for planning as an essential component of environmental protection is misplaced. Drawing on the experience of Britain and other Western democracies, the author uses public choice theory to explore the practical experience of land use planning as an example of government failure. The book opens by outlining the institutional focus of public choice theory, examining the central questions of market and government failure and the theoretical case for government intervention in the environment. Having explored the principal impacts of pl
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Subject Social choice -- Great Britain
Land use -- Great Britain -- Planning
Pressure groups -- Great Britain
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Land use -- Planning
Pressure groups
Social choice
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567570925
0567570924