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Governing Ourselves?
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.
Foundations of Governance
In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come together to assess the extent to which municipal governments have the capacity to act autonomously, purposefully, and collaboratively in the intergovernmental arena.
Lobbyists, Governments and Public Trust, Volume 1 Increasing Transparency through Legislation
This report reviews the experiences of Australia, Canada, Hungary, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States with government regulations designed to increase scrutiny for lobbying and lobbyists.
Merger Delusion
The story of the fight against the forced merger of Montreal municipalities and the world's first metropolitan de-merger.
Governing the Island of Montreal
Located at the junction of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, Montreal Island is the main contact point between French and English Canadians. Prior to Quebec's "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s, local governments in Montreal both reflected and perpetuated the mutual isolation of French and English. Residential concentration in autonomous suburbs, together with self-contained networks of schools and social services, enabled English-speaking Montrealers to control the city's economy and to conduct their community's affairs with little regard for the French-speaking majority. The modernization of the Quebec state in the 1960s dramatically challenged this arrangement. The author demonstrates how ...
Managing Publicly
This book discusses how the role of the public manager differs from that of the private sector. Public managers are held to high standards, are in the public eye, and expected to have a private sector management style while taking into consideration the ethos of the public sector. The book presents case studies and encourages debate.
Housing Needs and Policy Approaches
Drawing upon research from six continents, Housing Needs and Policy Approaches analyzes the social problems involved with providing housing in the industrialized nations and in the Third World. The book focuses on four areas of concern: current trends in housing in specific Western countries, the role of Western governments in creating this housing, housing provisions in less developed nations, and the relationship of societal structure and housing, particularly with respect to the decentralization of population occurring in many regions.
Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and its determinants, few have specifically studied its outcomes. This book contributes to filling this gap by critically re-evaluating the fundamental premise of the New Regionalism, which is that regional problems can be solved without regional/higher government. In particular, this research asks: to what extent does regional collaboration have a significant independent influence on the determinants o...
Secrets d'États ?
Cet ouvrage de référence a pour objectif de répondre aux principales questions que nous nous posons quant au rôle de l’État, aux principes à partir desquels il est organisé, à son fonctionnement, à ses valeurs et aux grands enjeux contemporains auxquels il doit faire face. Conçu d’abord pour celles et ceux qui veulent faire l’apprentissage de ce que sont nos institutions politico-administratives, cet ouvrage apportera à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’administration publique, à ses composantes et à ses acteurs, de nouvelles connaissances tout en suscitant une réflexion de qualité. Fruit de la collaboration d’une imposante équipe d’analystes et de praticiens pa...
