Multidimensionality in State Policy and Programs: A Critique of Pluralist State Theory

T Klak
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T Klak: Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1361, USA

Environment and Planning C, 1989, vol. 7, issue 4, 471-474

Abstract: In public policy analysis the state is often presented as primarily technocratic and virtually separate from society. It freely chooses its own goals, but falls short primarily because of shortcomings in policy planning techniques. This view, however, conflates policy and investment programs, while neglecting state–society relations, multipurpose policies, and the legitimation of spatial policy. State theory must be able to interpret these dimensions of the state and its limited autonomy, as this critique of Lim's theory of state policies suggests.

Date: 1989
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