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Author : Donald J. H. Higgins
Publisher : Gage
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39076001315873
Author : Caroline Andrew,Katherine A.H. Graham
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773596290
The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways. Canada in Cities examines this relationship to better understand the interplay among changing demographics, how local governments and citizens frame their arguments for federal action, and the ways in which the national government uses its power and resources to shape urban Canada. Most studies of local governance in Canada focus on politics and policy within cities. The essays in this collection turn such analysis on its head, by examining federal programs, rather than municipal ones, and observing how they influence local policies and work with regional authorities and civil societies. Through a series of case studies - ranging from federal policy concerning Aboriginal people in cities, to the introduction of the federal gas tax transfer to municipalities, to the impact of Canada's emergency management policies on cities - the contributors provide insights about how federal politics influence the local political arena. Analyzing federal actions in diverse policy fields, the authors uncover meaningful patterns of federal action and outcome in Canadian cities. A timely contribution, Canada in Cities offers a comprehensive study of diverse areas of municipal public policy that have emerged in Canada in recent years.
Author : Andrew Sancton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : 0199008094
Written by one of Canada's foremost authorities on municipal government, this comprehensive introduction to urban local government explores how Canadian municipal governments are defined, why we have them, what they do, and how power is attained and distributed within them.
Author : Mary Louise McAllister
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774840743
Given the pressures of integration and assimilation, how are people within communities able to make decisions about their own environment, whether individually or collectively? Governing Ourselves? explores issues of influence and power within local institutions and decision-making processes using numerous illustrations from municipalities across Canada. It shows how communities large and small, from Toronto to Iqaluit, have distinctive political cultures and therefore respond differently to changing global and domestic environments. Case studies illuminate historical and contemporary challenges to local governance. This book covers topics including government structures and institutions and intergovernmental relations and reaches more broadly into geography, urban planning, environmental studies, public administration, and sociology.
Author : Warren Magnusson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773597280
Despite decades of talk about globalization, democracy still depends on local self-government. In Local Self-Government and the Right to the City, Warren Magnusson argues that it is the principle behind claims to personal autonomy, community control, and national self-determination, and holds the promise of more peaceful politics. Unfortunately, state-centred thinking has obscured understanding of what local self-government can mean and hindered efforts to make good on what activists have called the "right to the city." In this collection of essays, Magnusson reflects on his own efforts to make sense of what local self-government can actually mean, using the old ideal of the town meeting as a touchstone. Why cannot communities govern themselves? Why fear direct democracy? As he suggests, putting more trust in the proliferating practices of government and self-government will actually make cities work better, and enable us to see how to localize democracy appropriately. He shows that doing so will require citizens and governments to come to terms with the multiplicity, indeterminacy, and uncertainty implicit in politics and steer clear of sovereign solutions. The culmination of a life’s work by Canada’s leading political theorist in the field, Local Self-Government and the Right to the City ranges across topics such as local government, social movements, constitutional law, urban political economy, and democratic theory.
Author : C. R. Tindal,S. Nobes Tindal
Publisher : Whitby, Ont. : McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Local government
ISBN : NWU:35556025973595
Author : John C. Weaver
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0919400469
Author : James Lightbody
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551117539
"City Politics, Canada will both irritate and please, but it should be read—it raises all the important questions about urban governance in Canada." - Caroline Andrew, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa
Author : Warren Magnusson,Andrew Sancton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983-06
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015001712689
City Politics in Canada offers a new perspective on Canadian municipal politics. Its concern is not with the mechanics of government, but with the practice of politics at the local level. Its focus, moreover, is on seven specific political systems at the heart of what are arguably the most important metropolitan areas in Canada. This book marks the beginning of an effort to specify what is distinctive about Canadian politics at the munisipal level, in relation to practice at other levels and in ther countries. The essays that form the core of City Politics in Canada were commissioned from leading authorities on local politics in the citizes concerned: Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Helifax, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Edmonton. The result is a set of accessible and highly informative essays, each written from a different perspective and based on a diferent approach to the subject, but each contributing to a general portrait of Canadian city politics. Warren Magnusson's introductory essay is itself a sketch for such a portrait. Especially designed for readers who are new to the subject, this essay reviews the development of local government and politics in Canada as a whole. It explains those features of municipal politics that the authors of the case studies have had to take for granted, and it sets the context for comparative analysis. Such analysis is Andrew Sancton's concern in his concluding essay. He bases his observations on the studies in this book, and pays particular attention to the way in which the pattern revealed differs from the American and the British. As he says, Canadian city politics is almost exclusively about boosterism, land development, and the enhancement of property. This is its unifying and distinguishing feature -- a feature that is clarified by the analyses in each chapter of City Politics in Canada.
Author : Jack Lucas,R. Michael McGregor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Local elections
ISBN : 9781487528560
This collection offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour during local elections in eight of Canada's largest cities.
Author : Roger Keil,Pierre Hamel,Julie-Anne Boudreau,Stefan Kipfer
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771122627
The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it.” Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale. With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions’ path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized.
Author : Sandra Breux,Jérôme Couture
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773553743
In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lower for municipal elections than it is for other levels of government. Second, the re-election rate of incumbent candidates is higher compared to provincial, territorial, and federal elections. Third, corruption and other scandals have tarnished the image of local democracy. Are cities sufficiently capable of responding to crises and representing the interests of their residents? Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level addresses these issues through qualitative and quantitative analysis, focusing on some of the most important characteristics of the Canadian municipal scene, including the contexts of partisanship and non-partisanship, the careers and daily work of municipal officials, and multilevel governance. This volume also assists directly in the collection and dissemination of data about cities as there is currently no centralized system for capturing and organizing electoral statistics at the municipal level. Municipal democracy in Canada suffers from a representation deficit. Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level is an important first step in building high-quality comparative information on the politics of Canada’s cities.
Author : Katherine A. Graham,Susan D. Phillips,Allan M. Maslove
Publisher : Harcourt Brace (Canada)
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774733926
Author : Lionel D. Feldman,Michael D'Arey Goldrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Local government
ISBN : 0458918709
Author : Donald J. H. Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0771556861