Canadian Local Government
An Urban Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 21 April 2011
- ISBN 9780195427561
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages424 pages
- Size 228x152x19 mm
- Weight 240 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 figures; 16 tables 0
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Short description:
Canadian Local Government: An Urban Perspective by Andrew Sancton is a new ground-up text that focuses on local governments as political institutions. Its objective is to attempt to answer all of the big questions political scientists ask about other political institutions: How are local governments defined? Why do we have them? What do they do? How do they relate to other political institutions? How is power attained and distributed within them? With a strong and
powerful voice, Sancton answers these questions by assuming that we need to know as much about how our local governments work as we do about other levels of government and their influences.
Long description:
Canadian Local Government: An Urban Perspective by Andrew Sancton is a new ground-up text that focuses on local governments as political institutions. Its objective is to attempt to answer all of the big questions political scientists ask about other political institutions: How are local governments defined? Why do we have them? What do they do? How do they relate to other political institutions? How is power attained and distributed within them? With a strong and
powerful voice, Sancton answers these questions by assuming that we need to know as much about how our local governments work as we do about other levels of government and their influences.
Part I of the book is concerned with the legal and political framework of Canadian local government. Part II examines how structures of local government are adapted to urbanization. Part III is about power, politics, and management within major Canadian municipalities, and Part IV discusses money, a subject particularly important at the local level. Sancton concludes his text by addressing issues that relate to the future of Canadian local government and theorizes that knowing about Canadian
local government facilitates urban living.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I - THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK
1. What Is Local Government?
2. Why Local Government?
3. Central Governments and Local Governments
4. Special-Purpose Bodies
PART II - ADAPTING TO URBANIZATION
5. Urban and Rural
6. Annexations
7. Two-tier Metropolitan and Regional Governments
8. Amalgamations and De-amalgamations
PART III - POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT IN CANADIAN URBAN GOVERNMENT
9. Municipal Politics, Councils, and Elections
10. Developers, Councillors, and Citizens
11. Mayors and Local Political Leadership
12. Senior Management and Labour Unions
PART IV - FINANCIAL ISSUES
13. Budgets, Grants, and User Fees
14. The Property Tax
CONCLUSION
15. Change, Importance, and Complexity
References
Index
