Governing the Island of Montreal : Language Differences and Metropolitan Politics

Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec

Robust metropolitan governance is increasingly viewed as necessary to address important economic, social and environmental problems. In this context, this article surveys recent developments in Canadian metropolitan governance. Canada was admired in the post-war period for the effectiveness of its two-tier and unitary metropolitan governments; however, few survive today as urbanisation patterns have become increasingly polycentric and intergovernmental relations more conflictual. Three models have emerged in Canada, sometimes in combination with one another: the multi-purpose regional intergovernmental organisation, the single-purpose metropolitan agency, and the provincial metropolitan policy overlay. Examples of each are discussed, with an emphasis on the interplay of horizontal (intermunicipal) and vertical (provincial–municipal) intergovernmental relations. Ultimately, provincial governments are by virtue of their constitutional authority and spending power the only actors capable of establishing and maintaining durable institutions and policies of metropolitan scope, and they have chosen to do so in Canada’s largest and most urbanised provinces.

Regionalism from above: intergovernmental relations in Canadian metropolitan governance

“En Avant Sépharades Montréalais!” North African Jews, Ashkenazim, and the Quiet Revolution 1956-1975

Le developpement et les caracteristiques de la gouvernance des banlieues cossues de la region de Montreal sont analyses ici a partir des cas de Westmount et Pointe-Claire. La facon dont leur territoire a ete constitue en municipalite, les pratiques electorales qui s’y sont developpees et les principaux acteurs qui participent a leur gouvernance entre la fin du 19e siecle et le debut de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, revelent qu’elles sont le theâtre d’un mode de gouvernance distinct, propre aux banlieues bourgeoises et adapte aux besoins et aux interets de leurs habitants.

/pdf/une-gouvernance-suburbaine-distincte-les-banlieues-elitaires-25u1vdag55.pdf

Governing the Island of Montreal : Language Differences and Metropolitan Politics

Citations

Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec

Regionalism from above: intergovernmental relations in Canadian metropolitan governance

“En Avant Sépharades Montréalais!” North African Jews, Ashkenazim, and the Quiet Revolution 1956-1975

Une gouvernance suburbaine distincte : les banlieues élitaires de montréal (1880-1939)

“La fédération impériale, voilà notre ennemie”: Honoré Mercier and Public Opinion on Imperial Federalism as Seen Through the Montreal Press, 1885-1893

Related Papers (5)

Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands

The suburban society

Trends in American Political Sociology

4. Difference, Democracy, and the City

6. Rethinking Southeast Asian Politics