Print Email Facebook Twitter The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas Title The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas Author Pesch, U. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Vermaas, P.E. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Date 2020 Abstract Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicked problems cannot be resolved by better administrative frameworks or methods. Rather societal matters are to be included in decision-making, for instance, by seeing societal opposition as opportunities to learn to deal with the planning dilemmas. Subject dilemmasnormativitypluralitywicked problems To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ea180082-d09b-47e9-a87b-c5c170dc9e67 DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399720934010 ISSN 0095-3997 Source Administration and Society, 52 (6), 960-979 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 U. Pesch, P.E. Vermaas Files PDF 0095399720934010.pdf 224.67 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ea180082-d09b-47e9-a87b-c5c170dc9e67/datastream/OBJ/view