ABSTRACT

This paper deploys a discursive institutionalist framework to explore how various categories of ideas – from ideology, to programme, to policy – interact to shape the planning policymaking process. Using the emergence of the 2012 National Planning Policy Framework in England as a case study, the role of the political ideology of the leadership of a political party (as distinct from, but related to, the broader category of ‘neoliberalism’) in shaping and legitimising planning reform is analysed. It is shown that it is not only the political ideological legacy of a political party and how it melds with the prevailing paradigmatic orthodoxy (such as neoliberalism) that matters in framing planning reform, but that the way in which ideas are communicated and consulted on in the policymaking process is also significant.

摘要

本文部署了一个话语制度主义框架，以探索不同类别的想法——从意识形态到计划再到政策——如何相互作用以塑造规划决策过程。以 2012 年英国国家规划政策框架的出现作为案例研究，政党领导层的政治意识形态（不同于更广泛的“新自由主义”类别，但与之相关）在塑造和分析了规划改革的合法性。研究表明，在规划改革框架中，重要的不仅是政党的政治意识形态遗产以及它如何与盛行的范式正统观念（如新自由主义）融合，而且重要的是思想交流和协商的方式。决策过程也很重要。