Outsourcing Planning [electronic resource]: What do consultants do in a regional spatial planning in the Netherlands
- Author
- Grijzen, Jantine
- Published
- Vossiupers UvA [Imprint] Feb. 2010 Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
- Physical Description
- 346 p. 23.400 x 015.600 cm.
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- Annotation This thesis addresses the wide involvement of consultants in regional spatial planning projects in the Netherlands. Although consultants have become important actors in public policy making, and media and politics have frequently addressed this as a problem, until now the scientific literature has paid little attention to them. This thesis shows that the wide involvement of consultants can best be explained from the perspective of increasing problems of coordination and cooperation in Dutch regional spatial planning. Planning has become an activity performed by many governments and stakeholders together, with overlapping policies, expertise and procedures. From an external position, consultants can act as intermediaries between interdependent actors, both by mediating between personal relations as well as by connecting substantive issues. Hiring consultants, however, is also a sign of emptying out governments; when governments outsource core tasks like policy articulation and cooperation with other governments, they can loose the capability to develop high quality and democratic plans in a complex and interdependent world This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056296193.
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- 9789056296193
9056296191 (Trade Paper) - Audience Notes
- Scholarly & Professional Amsterdam University Press
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