Streamlining Informal Institutions for Local Strategic Planning and Development in a Post-Socialist Central-European Setting

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/44555601:13510/22:43897151

Result on the web

<a href="https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/708" target="_blank" >https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/708</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/tras.67E.8" target="_blank" >10.24193/tras.67E.8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Streamlining Informal Institutions for Local Strategic Planning and Development in a Post-Socialist Central-European Setting

Original language description

Informal institutions are increasingly emphasized by local development thinkers as preconditions and factors supporting local development. In post-socialist European countries (PSECs), the need to strengthen informal institutions has been postulated as imperative by some researchers, critically addressing previous decades of rather infrastructural development. In this paper, we argue that, in contrast to this discourse, the operationalization of informal institutions for their use in strategic planning and local development remains unclear. This results in inconsistencies and conflicting natures between the planning process itself and its goals. Based on a review of the literature on the role of informal institutions in local strategic planning and development, we identify the two main shortcomings in the use of the concept. First, we point out the lack of their operationalization, which is underpinned by a poor understanding of the different levels of abstraction inherent to informal institutions. Second, we assert that neglecting such different levels of abstraction often leads to a lack of consensus on appropriate ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of strategic planning out[1]comes. To reduce the formalism while referring to informal institutions in existing local strategies, we propose a new conceptual approach that allows for their operationalization. The applicability of the proposed concept is discussed specifically in the realm of post-socialist European planning.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-11782S" target="_blank" >GA20-11782S: The nature and dynamics of local land use conflicts in a polyrational arena</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Science

ISSN

1842-2845

e-ISSN

2247-8310

Volume of the periodical

2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

67 E

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

142-163

UT code for WoS article

000988114100007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85141186022