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. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-542756-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 424
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés