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Land policy and land-use planning policy are two types of public policy pertaining tospace. In general, land-use planning policy deals with land-use allocation and propertyrights, whereas land policy defines the land regime of a society. These differences haveshaped a unique discourse for each of these policy types. The purpose of this article isto examine the differences and similarities between the land discourse and the planningdiscourse by analyzing two public campaigns conducted in Israel against two proposedreforms: the 2009 reform of the Israel Land Administration and the 2010–12 reform ofthe Planning and Building Law. The findings reveal substantive differences between thetwo campaigns, manifested in the nature of the leading players, the types of publicactivities they chose, and most notably in the discourses and the hierarchy ofconsiderations they addressed. The findings raise profound questions regardinguniversal trends in spatial policy reforms; their influence on the activities of publiccoalitions and the discourses they adopted; possible future effects of these trends on thedifferences between the land discourse and the planning discourse; and the impact ofthese trends on the ability of groups and individuals elsewhere to influence spatialpolicies (such as planning and land policies).
