National Planning In The United States: An Annotated Bibliography [Hardcover]

This annotated bibliography of more than 2,000 entries, current through 1977, sheds light on the national planning idea as a substantive issue in past, present, and future U.S. public policy; presents a bibliographic structure that suggests new emphases, relationships, and interdisciplinary approaches; and makes more easily accessible to students and researchers the enormous volume of literature on the subject. Its emphasis is on material from four disciplinespublic administration, political science, economics, and sociologyand, to a lesser extent, on eleven key national planning-related fields. The bibliography is a companion to The National Planning Idea in U.S. Public Policy: Five Alternative Approaches, to be published by Westview in September of this year.Preface -- Introduction -- Basic Background Material -- Past American National Planning Efforts and Ideas, 1900-1972 -- Related Planning Trends in the 1970's -- Five Approaches to National Planning -- The Growth and Resource National Planning Debates, 1973-1976 -- American National Planning: The FutureThis annotated bibliography of more than 2,000 entries, current through 1977, sheds light on the national planning idea as a substantive issue in past, present, and future U.S. public policy; presents a bibliographic structure that suggests new emphases, relationships, and interdisciplinary approaches; and makes more easily accessible to students and researchers the enormous volume of literature on the subject. Its emphasis is on material from four disciplinespublic administration, political science, economics, and sociologyand, to a lesser extent, on eleven key national planning-related fields. The bibliography is a companion to The National Planning Idea in U.S. Public Policy: Five Alternative Approaches, to be published by Westview in September of this year.USCopyright ? 1979 by Taylor & Francis