Hardcover - McAllister, Mary Louise: Governing Ourselves? The Politics of Canadian Communities

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.

Hardcover. Like New condition.
ISBN: 0774810629
Published in 2004 by University of British Columbia Press. Originally published in 2004.
333 pages
Actual product in photographs.