
Canadian Local Government
An Urban Perspective
Andrew Sancton(Author)
Oxford University Press, Canada
Published on 21. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-0-19-542756-1 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 figures; 16 tables
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-542756-1 (9780195427561)
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Person
Andrew Sancton is Professor of Political Science and is Director of the Local Government Program at the University of Western Ontario. He teaches urban politics and local public administration and his research interests include municipal amalgamations, central local-relations, local-government policy-making, and electoral redistribution.
Content
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