Download or read book Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics written by Jack Lucas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most peculiar features of municipal politics in Canada is how frequently local politicians, activists, and scholars disagree about how to describe the municipal arena. For some, municipal politics is distinct from other levels of government, a world of non-ideological elections, pragmatic and technical policymaking, and issue-by-issue policy coalitions. Others argue that municipal politics is similar to politics at other scales, with persistent axes of political disagreement and a recognizable “left” and “right.” This recurring debate features prominently in municipal election campaigns across Canada. In Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics, Jack Lucas investigates municipal ideology in Canada. Using data from original surveys of municipal politicians and the Canadian public, the book reveals how municipal politics is clearly structured by left-right ideology. It shows that municipal politicians represent their constituents’ ideological preferences quite well: they understand their constituents’ ideological perspectives, they align with their constituents’ preferences, and they are elected in part because of their ideological alignment with voters. A lively and accessible study, Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics will appeal to readers interested in municipal politics, political ideology, and political representation.
Download or read book Political Parties and Ideologies in Canada written by William Christian and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Parties and Ideologies in Canada Liberals Conservatives Socialists Nationalists written by William Christian and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City Politics in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Politics in Canada offers a new perspective on Canadian municipal politics. It concerns the practice of politics at the local level. Its focus, moreover, is on seven specific political systems at the heart of what are arguably the most important metropolitan areas in Canada.
Download or read book Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections written by R. Michael McGregor and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Municipal elections in Canada don’t look much like those held at the federal and provincial levels. A key difference is a significant discrepancy in voter turnout, but relatively little is known about why far fewer people vote in city elections. Voters show less interest in local government, seeing it as less influential than other levels, yet they believe their views matter more to local politicians. Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections explores this apparent contradiction by asking who participates in politics, how they go about it, and why. Drawing from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, a novel survey of electors in eight large cities across the country in 2017 and 2018, contributors consider factors ranging from the universal – such as the demographic profile of voters or how economic conditions affect them – to the specific – for example, participation in school board and council elections. There are more municipal elections than any other kind in Canada. The discoveries in Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections collectively represent a major leap forward in our understanding of voter activity at the community and municipal level.
Download or read book Local and Urban Politics in Canada written by Donald J. H. Higgins and published by Gage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections written by Éric Bélanger and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Quebec is well known for its provincial-level party politics and thriving nationalism, voting behaviour and electoral campaigning at the municipal level have failed to gain much attention to date. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections seeks to transform the state of municipal elections research in Quebec through a systematic study of the 2017 Montreal and Quebec City elections. Drawing upon data from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, the authors demonstrate not only the importance of Quebec municipal politics, but the many ways that municipal elections research can inform our broader understanding of voting behaviour in the province. This volume considers the features particular to the Quebec local context, such as the importance of language and nationalism, the effects of local party labels for down-ballot races, and the role of ideology. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections represents the largest-ever collection of work on local elections in the province’s history, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the municipal voter in Quebec.
Download or read book Parties Leaders and Ideologies in Canada written by Colin Campbell and published by . This book was released on with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and Government of Urban Canada written by Lionel D. Feldman and published by Toronto: Methuen. This book was released on 1972 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To supplement a basic text. Assumes some knowledge of the subject.
Download or read book Canadian Local Government written by Andrew Sancton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by esteemed political scientist Andrew Sancton, Canadian Local Government: An Urban Perspective is a comprehensive introduction to municipal government in Canada. The text emphasizes that what happens in local government affects our lives on a daily basis just as much, if not more,than what happens at the provincial and federal levels. Addressing all of the key questions political scientists ask about political institutions, the book explores how local governments are defined, why we have them, what they do, and how power is attained and distributed within them. Drawing onyears of experience in the field, Sancton examines the legal and political frameworks in which city governments operate; the structural changes associated with annexation and amalgamation; power, politics, and management in Canada's major cities; the important issue of money; and, finally, thefuture of local government. Current, engaging, and in-depth, this ground-up Canadian text reveals the crucial role local government plays in shaping everyday life.
Download or read book City Politics Canada written by James Lightbody and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "City Politics, Canada will both irritate and please, but it should be read—it raises all the important questions about urban governance in Canada." - Caroline Andrew, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa
Download or read book City Planning as Utopian Ideology and City Government Function written by Earl Levin and published by Institute of Urban Studies. This book was released on 1984 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There s a Party at City Hall written by Christopher Erl and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The conventional view of Canadian local government is that municipalities are dominated by a spirit of non-partisanship and where "there is no Liberal or Conservative way to pave a street," (Slayton, 2015). While non-partisanship has long been a fixture of municipal government in most Canadian provinces, other municipalities have active political parties operating within legal frameworks established by provincial governments. To further complicate matters, some candidates in non-partisan jurisdictions are backed by "shadow parties", which I identify as clandestine organizations of partisan actors. Such variation provides an opportunity to consider scholar James Lightbody's claim that "Non-partisan councils across Canada, especially those elected from large districts, work to the advantage of middle-aged white men," (2006, p. 257). This suggests Canadian municipal elections have barriers to the participation of those from historically marginalized communities - specifically women, racialized, and Queer Canadians. Non-participation means an absence of such voices on city councils and local boards, meaning those impacted by the decisions of local governments have no say in how a municipality operates.In this dissertation, I connect issues of partisanship and identity to the political geographical theory of local government as a scale worthy of inquiry, the history of municipal government in Canada, and the unique partisan structure present in Canadian municipalities. I make five central claims. First, municipalities, as essential components of the state, perform crucial functions that are commonplace and seemingly innocuous. These functions are called "civic banality" and can have an outsized impact on the lives of historically marginalized people in the municipality.Second, I identify five eras in Canadian municipal political history, beginning with the Rebellions of 1837/1838. In the important Reform and Battleground Eras, (1902-1958), the foundations for municipal non-partisanship were laid, resulting in damaging planning decisions that further marginalized many Canadians from participation.Third, I examine non-partisanship itself, arguing that it has been primarily a tool of the status quo, used to frame the municipality as a state entity aligned with the interests of business and of social and economic elites. This is done in contrast with the existing forms of municipal partisan organization and the different ways in which partisan networks can form when influenced by the spectre of non-partisanship.Fourth, I demonstrate the presence of clandestine networks of partisans - shadow parties -through an analysis of campaign donations. These organizations operate behind-the-scenes in formally or conventionally non-partisan jurisdictions. I posit that shadow parties, while seemingly self-interested, may also bolster the candidacy of historically marginalized people who would otherwise be without the support a partisan network can provide. I find that evidence pointing to the benefits of shadow parties is mixed, though there are some significant impacts of shadow parties on the candidacy of some groups.Finally, I analyze the relationship between shadow party support, candidate diversity, and candidate success. Although the results are mixed, I find substantial evidence that such party support aids candidates from historically marginalized groups.To test the final two claims, I use two original datasets. First, a survey of municipal candidates, sent to 2,512 municipal candidates in the 25 largest municipalities in Ontario and 762 municipal candidates in the 15 largest municipalities in British Columbia. Second, a smaller detailed dataset of 1,523 candidates in five cities in both Ontario and British Columbia. This incorporates financial data to determine a candidate's shadow party affiliation. I evaluate the final two claims using logistic and linear regression models, and descriptive statistics regarding the candidate pools"--
Download or read book Local Parties In Political And Organizational Perspective written by Martin R. Saiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes relations between political party systems and local communities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and other nations. This book addresses an almost completely neglected branch of community politics: the comparative analysis of local political systems. Accordingly, Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective opens new views to a variety of relations between political systems and local communities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and other nations. The authors unite specific national case studies with an original theoretical framework, resulting in an anthology with uncommon coherency. Theoretical generalizations are tested with cross-national data; each case study, in turn, demonstrates a localized version of the larger framework, using specific historical political outcomes as examples. This book addresses an almost completely neglected branch of community politics: the comparative analysis of local political systems. Accordingly, Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective opens new views to a variety of relations between political systems and local communities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and other nations. The authors unite specific national case studies with an original theoretical framework, resulting in an anthology with uncommon coherency. Theoretical generalizations are tested with cross-national data; each case study, in turn, demonstrates a localized version of the larger framework, using specific historical political outcomes as examples. Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective argues that local political parties should be understood as Janus-faced: components of nationally encompassing organizations on the one hand, and specific actors in community politics on the other. As such, local parties necessarily act as the primary democratic institutions that link ordinary citizens to local governmental institutions, and transitively to the national political system. By linking ordinary citizens and the most basic local organizations with national politics, Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective adds significantly to the collective understanding of the nature and status of local parties in mature and developing democracies
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Gender Sexuality and Canadian Politics written by Manon Tremblay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics offers the first and only handbook in the field of Canadian politics that uses 'gender' (which it interprets broadly, as inclusive of sex, sexualities, and other intersecting identities) as its category of analysis. Its premise is that political actors’ identities frame how Canadian politics is thought, told, and done; in turn, Canadian politics, as a set of ideas, state institutions and decision-making processes, and civil society mobilizations, does and redoes gender. Following the standard structure of mainstream introductory Canadian politics textbooks, this handbook is divided into four sections (ideologies, institutions, civil society, and public policy) each of which contains several chapters on topics commonly taught in Canadian politics classes. The originality of the handbook lies in its approach: each chapter reviews the basics of a given topic from the perspective of gendered/sexualized and other intersectional identities. Such an approach makes the handbook the only one of its kind in Canadian Politics.
Download or read book Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections written by Éric Bélanger and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While Quebec is well known for its provincial level party politics and thriving nationalism, voting behaviour and electoral campaigning at the municipal level have failed to gain much attention to date. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections seeks to transform the state of municipal elections research in Quebec through a systematic study of the 2017 Montreal and Quebec City elections. Drawing upon data from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, the authors demonstrate not only the importance of Quebec municipal politics, but the many ways that municipal elections research can inform our broader understanding of voting behaviour in the province. This volume considers features particular to the Quebec local context, such as the importance of language and nationalism, the effects of local party labels for down ballot races, and the role of ideology. Voting in Quebec Municipal Elections represents the largest ever collection of work on local elections in the province's history, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the municipal voter in Quebec."--
Download or read book Hometown Inequality written by Brian F. Schaffner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local governments play a central role in American democracy, providing essential services such as policing, water, and sanitation. Moreover, Americans express great confidence in their municipal governments. But is this confidence warranted? Using big data and a representative sample of American communities, this book provides the first systematic examination of racial and class inequalities in local politics. We find that non-whites and less-affluent residents are consistent losers in local democracy. Residents of color and those with lower incomes receive less representation from local elected officials than do whites and the affluent. Additionally, they are much less likely than privileged community members to have their preferences reflected in local government policy. Contrary to the popular assumption that governments that are “closest” govern best, we find that inequalities in representation are most severe in suburbs and small towns. Typical reforms do not seem to improve the situation, and we recommend new approaches.
