TY - JOUR
T1 - Public Planner – A Deliberative Authority
AU - Mäntysalo, Raine
AU - Westin, Martin
AU - Mattila, Hanna
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Beyond merely mediating between particular interests, deliberative planners are in need of a firmer agency in shaping attention to common good concerns. However, locating such agency legitimately in the context of deliberative ideals is difficult, and not well supported by theory. A key problem is the weak conceptualization of legitimate forms of power-over, regarding the deliberative planners’ agency. To address this theoretical challenge, the article employs Haugaard’s rethinking of power-over, Salet’s dialectics of public norms and performative aspirations, the “systems” turn of deliberative democracy theory, and Warren’s related work on authority.
AB - Beyond merely mediating between particular interests, deliberative planners are in need of a firmer agency in shaping attention to common good concerns. However, locating such agency legitimately in the context of deliberative ideals is difficult, and not well supported by theory. A key problem is the weak conceptualization of legitimate forms of power-over, regarding the deliberative planners’ agency. To address this theoretical challenge, the article employs Haugaard’s rethinking of power-over, Salet’s dialectics of public norms and performative aspirations, the “systems” turn of deliberative democracy theory, and Warren’s related work on authority.
KW - Common good
KW - communicative planning theory
KW - deliberative democracy theory
KW - power-over
KW - power-to
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148606377&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14649357.2023.2177713
DO - 10.1080/14649357.2023.2177713
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1464-9357
VL - 24
SP - 11
EP - 29
JO - Planning Theory & Practice
JF - Planning Theory & Practice
IS - 1
ER -