University of Isfahan Spatial Planning 2228-7485 11 2 2021 06 22 Public Policy and Regional Development: An Institutional Approach Public Policy and Regional Development: An Institutional Approach 123 142 25466 10.22108/sppl.2021.125311.1540 FA Behzad MalekpourAsl Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Morteza Ghourchi Assistant Professor, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2020 10 07 This paper will discuss the most popular discussions in development research: impact of public policy on development process. Policy analysts would now also play the role of planning advisors. Institutional analysis, and regional development deal with three interconnected subjects. Public policy impact on regional development and inequality reduction, subject which planners and economists have never really overcome, is still alive and with regard to popular interest and scientific research takes an important role in the planning outcomes. Dominant quantitative analysis approaches in complex planning process (such as classic production factor) never be able to represent the public interests. These analysis are especially appropriate and useful for the incremental decision-maker based on instrumental rationality. An essentially institutional approach continues to affect the public policies and tend to dominate conceptualization of the regional development base on public policy. In more recent years, traditional and dominant approaches and theories of regional development, based largely on the famous benefit-cost analysis and utilitarianism models, have been replaced by a suite of models that are known as new framework can be seen as a new institutional approach to regional development. This paper will discover or create a new models for surveying of public policy impacts on regional development formed the core of regional studies which address institutional consideration and constraints. Consequently, policy makers and planners should not lose sight of the fact that development is a complex process that incorporates the range of interests and needs to be seen as being both a product and a process. This paper will discuss the most popular discussions in development research: impact of public policy on development process. Policy analysts would now also play the role of planning advisors. Institutional analysis, and regional development deal with three interconnected subjects. Public policy impact on regional development and inequality reduction, subject which planners and economists have never really overcome, is still alive and with regard to popular interest and scientific research takes an important role in the planning outcomes. Dominant quantitative analysis approaches in complex planning process (such as classic production factor) never be able to represent the public interests. These analysis are especially appropriate and useful for the incremental decision-maker based on instrumental rationality. An essentially institutional approach continues to affect the public policies and tend to dominate conceptualization of the regional development base on public policy. In more recent years, traditional and dominant approaches and theories of regional development, based largely on the famous benefit-cost analysis and utilitarianism models, have been replaced by a suite of models that are known as new framework can be seen as a new institutional approach to regional development. This paper will discover or create a new models for surveying of public policy impacts on regional development formed the core of regional studies which address institutional consideration and constraints. Consequently, policy makers and planners should not lose sight of the fact that development is a complex process that incorporates the range of interests and needs to be seen as being both a product and a process. https://sppl.ui.ac.ir/article_25466_88530c2efa30b74b9e958b341bb795ce.pdf