Public norms and aspirations: the turn to institutions in action

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 The Evaporation of Institutions: Institutions – Between Viscosity and Volatility -- Institutions Make a Difference -- The Case of Spatial Planning and Planning Law in the Netherlands -- The First Epoch: A Balance of Pragmatic and Institutional Justification (1960–1975) -- The Second Epoch: The Triumph of Strategic Purposive Operations (1975–1995) -- The Third Epoch: Purposive Planning Lost in Splendid Isolation (1995–2015) -- New Environment and Planning Act (2015–) -- The Resurgence of Institutional Thinking in Practice and Research -- Note -- References -- 2 Public Norms and Aspirations: The Precursors -- Introduction -- The Relational Nature of Planning -- A Common Denominator -- Distinction of Public Norms and Purposive Missions -- Examining the Conceptual Differences Between Normative and Purposive Relationships: The Precursors -- Distinguishing Normative and Purposive Relationships in the History of Planning and Law -- Institutional Change and Experimental Pragmatism: Defining the Challenge -- References -- 3 Legitimacy in Action: The Logic of Pragmatism and Institutional Legality -- Introduction -- The Logic of Pragmatism: Public Action as Immediate Response -- The Continuation of the Pragmatist Legacy in Planning Approaches Today -- Critical Assessment of the Pragmatic Logic -- Institutions Mediate Public Action: The Philosophy of State and Law and the Case of "Legal Obligation" -- Legal Obligation -- Legitimacy in Action -- An Example -- Contextualization of Law and Regulation -- Conditioning Public Action -- Abstraction of Material Principles, Rules, and Norms -- Conditioning Outcomes, and Respecting Option Spaces -- Relational Congruence of Norm Validation

The evaporation of institutions -- Public norms and aspirations: the precursors -- Legitimacy in action: the logic of pragmatism and institutional legality -- How to investigate institutions? The relevance of paradigm -- Paradigms of institutional planning research -- Institutions in action: the changing city-region