Governing Ourselves?: The Politics of Canadian Communities

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UBC Press, 01‏/11‏/2011 - 352 من الصفحات

Popular rhetoric suggests that the twenty-first century has ushered in an era of homogeneity. Urbanization, globalization, amalgamation, media conglomeration, and technological convergence have become familiar terms. Given the pressures of integration and assimilation, how are people within communities able to make decisions about their own environment, whether individually or collectively? To what extent can they govern themselves?

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 of Prince George, Sherbrooke, Saint John, and Kitchener-Waterloo are used to illuminate historical and contemporary challenges to local governance.

This stimulating book covers traditional topics such as government structures and institutions and intergovernmental relations. It also reaches more broadly into areas of inquiry relevant to geography, urban planning, environmental studies, public administration, sociology, and Canadian studies.

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المحتوى

Introduction
3
LOCAL DEMOCRACY A CONTESTED NOTION
11
SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITIES INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
75
THE POLITICS OF SPACE PLACE AND ECOSYSTEMS
139
THE BUSINESS OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY
199
SURFING INTO THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY LOCAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS
255
Notes
285
Selected Bibliography
307
Photography Credits
315
Index
317
حقوق النشر

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

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نبذة عن المؤلف (2011)

Mary Louise McAllister is an associate professor in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo.

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