Highlight important features of Normative and Positive Theories of Planning

      

Highlight important features of Normative and Positive Theories of Planning

  

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- Normative Theory is concerned with how planners ought to proceed rationally
- Behavioral approaches focus more on limitations which they are against in trying to
fulfill their programme of rational action
- Normative and positive theory of planning have some bearing on each other where
empirical findings modify prescriptions, which is in line with Lindblom’s argument for
piecemeal planning; however, Banfield, who argued for CRM, also found that
organizations do not engage in rational planning. For him, the validity of rationality is a
normative ideal
Titany answered the question on October 28, 2021 at 06:25


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