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- Title
OFFICER-MEMBER RELATIONS IN COUNTY-LEVEL POLICY-MAKING FOR RURAL AREAS: THE CASE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE STRUCTURE PLAN.
- Authors
Cloke, Paul; Little, Jo
- Abstract
Studies of rural planning have only recently begun to focus on concepts of policy-making and implementation which have been developed in urban and regional contexts. Although recognizing the need for inter-organizational frameworks, this paper investigates one particular factor in policy-making — officer-member relations — as illustrated in the structure plan-making process of Gloucestershire County Council. Through a partnership between senior officers who were able to orchestrate decision-making, and elite members who provided political support for technical policy justifications, a form of directed policy consensus was reached. The consensus in this particular structure plan was marked by the prominence of a political-bureaucratic goal to provide policy-responses to rural problems. This theme was diluted, however, when the plan moved from the local to the central arena of power.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; RURAL development; PUBLIC administration; POLICY sciences; POLITICAL planning; DECISION making in political science
- Publication
Public Administration, 1987, Vol 65, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0033-3298
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9299.1987.tb00641.x