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Author : Donald J. H. Higgins
Publisher : Gage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Local and Urban Politics in Canada written by Donald J. H. Higgins and published by Gage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine A.H. Graham
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773596305
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Canada in Cities written by Katherine A.H. Graham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780199008094
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Canadian Local Government written by Andrew Sancton and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Warren Magnusson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773597298
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Local Self-Government and the Right to the City written by Warren Magnusson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John C. Weaver
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration of Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780919400467
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Shaping the Canadian City written by John C. Weaver and published by Institute of Public Administration of Canada. This book was released on 1977 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Lucas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487528566
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Big City Elections in Canada written by Jack Lucas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers an in-depth look at municipal voting behaviour during local elections in eight of Canada's largest cities.
Author : Mary Louise McAllister
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840749
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Governing Ourselves? written by Mary Louise McAllister and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Roger Keil
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771122625
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Governing Cities Through Regions written by Roger Keil and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : C. R. Tindal
Publisher : Whitby, Ont. : McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Local Government in Canada written by C. R. Tindal and published by Whitby, Ont. : McGraw-Hill Ryerson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Breux
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773553746
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level written by Sandra Breux and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Lightbody
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1551117533
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)
Download or read book City Politics, Canada written by James Lightbody and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Neil Bradford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442626275
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Governing Urban Economies written by Neil Bradford and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada's urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority. Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in which urban coalitions tackle complex economic and social challenges. Featuring an inter-disciplinary group of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection breaks new ground in the Canadian urban politics literature and will appeal to urbanists working in a range of national contexts.
Author : Katherine A. Graham
Publisher : Harcourt Brace (Canada)
ISBN 13 : 9780774733922
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Urban Governance in Canada written by Katherine A. Graham and published by Harcourt Brace (Canada). This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Courtney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019533535X
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics written by John Courtney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation that has occurred in Canadian politics since it acheived autonomy nearly a century ago, examining the institutions and processes of Canadian government and politics at the local, provincial and federal levels. It analyzes all aspects of the Canadian political system: the courts, elections, political parties, Parliament, the constitution, fiscal and political federalism, the diffusion of policies between regions, and various aspects of public policy.
Author : Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099637
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Local Government in a Global World written by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors provide insights into key themes impacting local governance in two federations with much in common historically, culturally, and politically: Australia and Canada. These essays examine changes in the Australian and Canadian systems through four thematic lenses: citizen participation in government systems, the restructuring and reform of local governments, the use of performance measures and management systems in the administration of local governments, and the relations of local governments within higher levels of governments.
Author : Warren Magnusson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book City Politics in Canada written by Warren Magnusson and published by . This book was released on 1983-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Canadian Urban Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Disentangling Local Government Responsibilities written by Canadian Urban Institute and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disentanglement is used in this report to refer to the unravelling of responsibilities shared by governments in order to achieve delivery of services that is more accountable, efficient, and effective. This report first reviews the development of provincial-municipal relations in Ontario since 1793, with details on the last major era of reform in the provincial-municipal relationship (late 1960s to early 1970s), a period which provides a case example of the last major effort to disentangle provincial & municipal responsibilities. This is followed by commentaries on relations between municipalities & other levels of government in other provinces & countries. The discussion covers such matters as accountability & understanding, finances, strategic planning, and intergovernmental relations. The final section discusses experiences in the other jurisdictions and analyses of past Ontario reforms & global trends in relation to Ontario's current disentanglement process.
