Alberta's Local Governments: Politics and DemocracyDuring the last decade, Alberta municipalities have endured hardships they have not faced since the Great Depression. Changes in the province's political structures appear to have been made primarily to transfer a greater share of the costs of local government to the municipalities, yet surprisingly few municipal politicians have resisted the province's financial policies. |
Contents
Intergovernmental Relations | 25 |
Urban Governmental Structures | 69 |
Rural and Evolving Forms of Local Government | 101 |
Governmental Reorganization | 147 |
Policy Makers and Democracy | 175 |
Bureaucratic Behaviour and Democratic Institutions | 215 |
Interest Groups and Democracy | 247 |
Parties Representation and Elections | 273 |
Finance Democracy and Policy Making | 323 |
Municipal Activities | 361 |
Planning and Democratic Institutions | 405 |
Education Politics and Government | 429 |
Concluding One Era of Governance and Beginning Another | 453 |
Local Political Parties | 459 |
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