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De-democratising the Irish planning system

Author(s)
Lennon, Mick  
Waldron, Richard  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9683
Date Issued
2019-03-20
Date Available
2019-03-26T10:00:38Z
Abstract
This paper examines the practices deployed to de-democratise elements of the Irish planning system. It does so through scrutinizing the processes by which a new streamlined planning procedure for large scale residential developments was institutionalized. The paper investigates how a development lobby group successfully prompted the institutionalization of this streamlined procedure by momentarily capturing the policy formulation agenda surrounding a housing crisis. It demonstrates how this was achieved by defining problems regarding the democratic character of the planning system and accruing agency through solution specification and resonance with the ideologies and rationalities of pertinent political and senior civil servant decision makers. The paper undertakes this analysis by situating a discourse analytical approach within the Multiple Streams Framework. In doing so, the paper provides an original contribution to academic scholarship through novelty of theoretical application on a disquieting aspect of neoliberalism in a planning context that as yet has received limited attention.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Journal
European Planning Studies
Issue
8
Start Page
1607
End Page
1625
Copyright (Published Version)
2019 Taylor & Francis
Subjects

De-democratisation

Planning

Multiple streams fram...

Discourse analysis

Neoliberalism

Housing studies

DOI
10.1080/09654313.2019.1595532
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0965-4313
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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Lennon, M. and Waldron, R., (2019), De-democratising the Irish planning system. European Planning Studies_pre-proofs.pdf

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