Planning Without Markets: Knowledge and State Action in East German Housing Construction
Planning Without Markets: Knowledge and State Action in East German Housing Construction
Author(s): Dietrich RueschemeyerSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Welfare systems, Social development, Family and social welfare, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: German Democratic Republic; housing construction; construction policies; socialism; private ownership of land and buildings;
Summary/Abstract: The question to be explored in this paper is simple and yet of some theoretical reach: How are the housing needs and the housing preferences of the population taken into account in the construction policies of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a political economy in which state planning dominates and the role of the market is radically reduced? Answering this question is, given the centrality of housing needs, important for assessing the quality of life in this state socialist society. It may also be instructive for our general understanding of planning systems, specifically of the relation between social knowledge and state action. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 04/1990
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 557-579
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English
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