In:
The American Review of Public Administration, SAGE Publications, Vol. 41, No. 6 ( 2011-11), p. 639-653
Abstract:
Both communicative planning theory and competing values models of public administration suggest attitudinal differences should exist between planners employed by private firms and those employed by government entities to the extent the perceptions of the former group are influenced by market forces to a greater degree than the latter. To test this, nine ordinal regression models were estimated using data collected from a national survey of 1,299 American Planning Association (APA) members. Planners employed in the public sector were found to be consistently more optimistic than private sector planners about government’s ability to manage political pressures and competing interests in the planning process. The results not only underscore the importance of existing planning and public administration theory but also offer a starting point to consider how sectoral differences in planners’ attitudes may influence outsourcing arrangements, public–private partnerships and other forms of cross-sector collaboration.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0275-0740
,
1552-3357
DOI:
10.1177/0275074010390031
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2011
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2020820-0
SSG:
2
SSG:
3,6
SSG:
3,7
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