Andrew Sancton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1367699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Sancton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Sancton |
| SIGNATURE | SANCTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What is a meeting? Municipal councils and the O ntario ombudsman
In recent decisions, the Ontario ombudsman has developed his own definition of a “meeting” of a municipal council. The definition derives more from American statutes and judicial decisions than from any prior interpretation of Ontario (or other Canadian) law. The ombudsman's rulings claim that the law prevents municipal councillors from meeting together informally “to lay the groundwork necessary” for the council to exercise its authority. He mis…
Commentary on Politics of Urbanism
Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City is Warren Magnusson's most recent book. It will find a permanent place as a key contribution in the annals of urban studies, urban politics, political and state theory and international relations, marking a turning point in the way scholars, activists and policymakers see the world. In particular, Magnusson fundamentally questions how we understand and analyse our world from the perspective of the state (t…
Democratic policing”
Recently, there has been much controversy and confusion about the concept of “police independence” in the U nited K ingdom and C anada. The concept loomed large during the I pperwash Inquiry, in which the alleged political direction of the O ntario P rovincial P olice was a major issue. These proceedings were partly concurrent with another A boriginal occupation in C aledonia, O ntario. The Inquiry's final report recommended adopting a “democrati…
Cities in Transition
Les villes anglophones au Québec
L'objectif du présent article est d'analyser l'importance de l'existence des municipalités à majorité anglophone, tant pour les anglophones du Québec que pour l'ensemble de la province. Les questions fondamentales qui sous-tendent cet article sont les suivantes : quel était le rôle de la question linguistique dans le processus des fusions municipales ayant eu lieu récemment au Québec, particulièrement celles qui ont mené à la création de la nouve…
Canadian Cities and the New Regionalism
In the United States, the new regionalism was invented because the old regionalism had proven politically impossible to implement. For Canadian cities, provincial legislatures have frequently imposed various institutional reforms many of which are highly relevant to the concerns of at least some American new regionalists. Canadian policy-makers have recently shown great interest in the tenets of the new regionalism, even in places where old regio…
Merger Mania
Outside the United States, forced municipal mergers were a popular policy in many European countries and Canadian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s. The city of Laval, just north of Montreal, and the unicity of Winnipeg owe their origins to this period - both amalgamations failed to meet their original objectives. Despite the emergence of choice theory - which justifies municipal fragmentation on market principles - some politicians and public…
La Frénésie des fusions
De 1974 à 1977, il a enseigné au collège Marianopolis à Montréal. Depuis, le professeur Sancton travaille à l'Université de Western Ontario à London, où il dirige le programme d'études en administration locale depuis les 15 dernières années. Ce programme offre des cours de premier cycle en administration publique destinés aux dirigeants municipaux. Il est actuellement président de la Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration et me…
Merger Mania
The idea that merging municipalities will improve local services and economic competitiveness has its roots deep in the nineteenth century. Municipalities in the US were first merged as early as 1848. However, despite being merged at the turn of the twentieth the city of New York was effectively bankrupt by 1975. In contrast metropolitan Boston - often seen as a recent success story in global competition - comprises 282 distinct municipalities.
Jane Jacobs on the Organization of Municipal Government
Although Jane Jacobs acknowledges the existence of metropolitan areas; her main unit of analysis for local politics is the center-city municipality. She is interested in how it can be decentralized, both to districts and to neighborhoods. Because she is suspicious of large organizations, she is not an advocate of expanding the size of center-city municipalities or of creating elaborate schemes for metropolitan government. Because she believes tha…
Reducing costs by consolidating municipalities
Notwithstanding a lack of interest by cost‐cutting governments in Britain and the United States, municipal consolidation has emerged in at least three Canadian provinces ‐ New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario ‐ as a significant government priority. There is no academic evidence to suggest that consolidation produces savings. Government reports in New Brunswick have tended to point more to non‐financial benefits from consolidation, but the creat…
Canada as a highly urbanized nation
Although Canada is a highly urbanized nation, many important principles relating to its governance seem based on the assumption that such urbanization need not be fully recognized. This assumption is increasingly being questioned, thereby causing considerable problems at all levels of government. The first such problem is that provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are now being employed to challenge electoral Systems which giv…
FuII‐time muniCipal counciIlors
Conventional models of municipal organization in the larger Canadian cities assume that councillors will not be occupied with municipal tasks on a full‐time basis. This assumption has historically been reflected in low remuneration levels and limited provisions for office space and support staff. Members of council have been expected not to interact with staff on a regular basis except at meetings of council and committees. Information gathered f…
Eroding Representation-by-Population in the Canadian House of Commons
The Representation Act, 1985 amended both the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act. This article shows that in each case the amendments erode the principle of representation by population by increasing the likelihood that federal electoral districts across the country will have widely varying populations. The first section examines the legislative history of the Representation Act, 1985 and its implementation in 19…
Montreal's Metropolitan Government
Governing the Island of Montreal
City Politics in Canada
The impact of language differences on metropolitan reform in Montreal
Although recent Quebec governments have shown great dedication to local institutional reform, their record with respect to municipal institutions in Montreal is not impressive. This article aims to show that it is Montreal's linguistic make‐up which has made the process of metropolitan reform unusually difficult. The existing municipal system of the Island of Montreal was shaped in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during which t…
British Socialist Theories of the Division of Power by Area
The Representation Act, 1974
In March 1973 this Journal published an article in which I attempted to show that section 51 of the British North America Act had been wrongly applied when seats in the House of Commons were allocated amongst the provinces as a result of the 1971 decennial census. I pointed out that my analysis was in conflict with that of the Representation Commissioner, the official having the legal duty to implement the section in question. In my penultimate p…
The Application of the “Senatorial Floor” Rules to the Latest Redistribution of the House of Commons
Cette étude se penche sur les calculs prévus par l'article 51 de l'Acte de l'Amérique du Nord Britannique pour redistribuer, d'après le recensement de 1971, les sièges des Communes entre les provinces. Dans le cas de la Nouvelle-Ecosse, ces calculs ont donné des résultats inhabituels, qui n'ont pas de précédent. On ne sail pas trop si les règles du « plancher sénatorial » doivent s'appliquer, et comment elles le doivent. On tente d'expliquer les …
Canadian Cities and the New Regionalism
In the United States, the new regionalism was invented because the old regionalism had proven politically impossible to implement. For Canadian cities, provincial legislatures have frequently imposed various institutional reforms many of which are highly relevant to the concerns of at least some American new regionalists. Canadian policy-makers have recently shown great interest in the tenets of the new regionalism, even in places where old regio…
Reducing costs by consolidating municipalities
Notwithstanding a lack of interest by cost‐cutting governments in Britain and the United States, municipal consolidation has emerged in at least three Canadian provinces ‐ New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario ‐ as a significant government priority. There is no academic evidence to suggest that consolidation produces savings. Government reports in New Brunswick have tended to point more to non‐financial benefits from consolidation, but the creat…
Merger Mania
Outside the United States, forced municipal mergers were a popular policy in many European countries and Canadian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s. The city of Laval, just north of Montreal, and the unicity of Winnipeg owe their origins to this period - both amalgamations failed to meet their original objectives. Despite the emergence of choice theory - which justifies municipal fragmentation on market principles - some politicians and public…
FuII‐time muniCipal counciIlors
Conventional models of municipal organization in the larger Canadian cities assume that councillors will not be occupied with municipal tasks on a full‐time basis. This assumption has historically been reflected in low remuneration levels and limited provisions for office space and support staff. Members of council have been expected not to interact with staff on a regular basis except at meetings of council and committees. Information gathered f…
Eroding Representation-by-Population in the Canadian House of Commons
The Representation Act, 1985 amended both the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act. This article shows that in each case the amendments erode the principle of representation by population by increasing the likelihood that federal electoral districts across the country will have widely varying populations. The first section examines the legislative history of the Representation Act, 1985 and its implementation in 19…
Les villes anglophones au Québec
L'objectif du présent article est d'analyser l'importance de l'existence des municipalités à majorité anglophone, tant pour les anglophones du Québec que pour l'ensemble de la province. Les questions fondamentales qui sous-tendent cet article sont les suivantes : quel était le rôle de la question linguistique dans le processus des fusions municipales ayant eu lieu récemment au Québec, particulièrement celles qui ont mené à la création de la nouve…
Democratic policing”
Recently, there has been much controversy and confusion about the concept of “police independence” in the U nited K ingdom and C anada. The concept loomed large during the I pperwash Inquiry, in which the alleged political direction of the O ntario P rovincial P olice was a major issue. These proceedings were partly concurrent with another A boriginal occupation in C aledonia, O ntario. The Inquiry's final report recommended adopting a “democrati…
Jane Jacobs on the Organization of Municipal Government
Although Jane Jacobs acknowledges the existence of metropolitan areas; her main unit of analysis for local politics is the center-city municipality. She is interested in how it can be decentralized, both to districts and to neighborhoods. Because she is suspicious of large organizations, she is not an advocate of expanding the size of center-city municipalities or of creating elaborate schemes for metropolitan government. Because she believes tha…
City Politics in Canada
British Socialist Theories of the Division of Power by Area
Canada as a highly urbanized nation
Although Canada is a highly urbanized nation, many important principles relating to its governance seem based on the assumption that such urbanization need not be fully recognized. This assumption is increasingly being questioned, thereby causing considerable problems at all levels of government. The first such problem is that provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are now being employed to challenge electoral Systems which giv…
The Application of the “Senatorial Floor” Rules to the Latest Redistribution of the House of Commons
Cette étude se penche sur les calculs prévus par l'article 51 de l'Acte de l'Amérique du Nord Britannique pour redistribuer, d'après le recensement de 1971, les sièges des Communes entre les provinces. Dans le cas de la Nouvelle-Ecosse, ces calculs ont donné des résultats inhabituels, qui n'ont pas de précédent. On ne sail pas trop si les règles du « plancher sénatorial » doivent s'appliquer, et comment elles le doivent. On tente d'expliquer les …
The Representation Act, 1974
In March 1973 this Journal published an article in which I attempted to show that section 51 of the British North America Act had been wrongly applied when seats in the House of Commons were allocated amongst the provinces as a result of the 1971 decennial census. I pointed out that my analysis was in conflict with that of the Representation Commissioner, the official having the legal duty to implement the section in question. In my penultimate p…
British Socialist Theories of the Division of Power by Area
The impact of language differences on metropolitan reform in Montreal
Although recent Quebec governments have shown great dedication to local institutional reform, their record with respect to municipal institutions in Montreal is not impressive. This article aims to show that it is Montreal's linguistic make‐up which has made the process of metropolitan reform unusually difficult. The existing municipal system of the Island of Montreal was shaped in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during which t…
City Politics in Canada
Governing the Island of Montreal
Montreal's Metropolitan Government
FuII‐time muniCipal counciIlors
Conventional models of municipal organization in the larger Canadian cities assume that councillors will not be occupied with municipal tasks on a full‐time basis. This assumption has historically been reflected in low remuneration levels and limited provisions for office space and support staff. Members of council have been expected not to interact with staff on a regular basis except at meetings of council and committees. Information gathered f…
Eroding Representation-by-Population in the Canadian House of Commons
The Representation Act, 1985 amended both the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act. This article shows that in each case the amendments erode the principle of representation by population by increasing the likelihood that federal electoral districts across the country will have widely varying populations. The first section examines the legislative history of the Representation Act, 1985 and its implementation in 19…
Canada as a highly urbanized nation
Although Canada is a highly urbanized nation, many important principles relating to its governance seem based on the assumption that such urbanization need not be fully recognized. This assumption is increasingly being questioned, thereby causing considerable problems at all levels of government. The first such problem is that provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are now being employed to challenge electoral Systems which giv…
Reducing costs by consolidating municipalities
Notwithstanding a lack of interest by cost‐cutting governments in Britain and the United States, municipal consolidation has emerged in at least three Canadian provinces ‐ New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario ‐ as a significant government priority. There is no academic evidence to suggest that consolidation produces savings. Government reports in New Brunswick have tended to point more to non‐financial benefits from consolidation, but the creat…
La Frénésie des fusions
De 1974 à 1977, il a enseigné au collège Marianopolis à Montréal. Depuis, le professeur Sancton travaille à l'Université de Western Ontario à London, où il dirige le programme d'études en administration locale depuis les 15 dernières années. Ce programme offre des cours de premier cycle en administration publique destinés aux dirigeants municipaux. Il est actuellement président de la Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration et me…
Merger Mania
The idea that merging municipalities will improve local services and economic competitiveness has its roots deep in the nineteenth century. Municipalities in the US were first merged as early as 1848. However, despite being merged at the turn of the twentieth the city of New York was effectively bankrupt by 1975. In contrast metropolitan Boston - often seen as a recent success story in global competition - comprises 282 distinct municipalities.
Jane Jacobs on the Organization of Municipal Government
Although Jane Jacobs acknowledges the existence of metropolitan areas; her main unit of analysis for local politics is the center-city municipality. She is interested in how it can be decentralized, both to districts and to neighborhoods. Because she is suspicious of large organizations, she is not an advocate of expanding the size of center-city municipalities or of creating elaborate schemes for metropolitan government. Because she believes tha…
Canadian Cities and the New Regionalism
In the United States, the new regionalism was invented because the old regionalism had proven politically impossible to implement. For Canadian cities, provincial legislatures have frequently imposed various institutional reforms many of which are highly relevant to the concerns of at least some American new regionalists. Canadian policy-makers have recently shown great interest in the tenets of the new regionalism, even in places where old regio…
Merger Mania
Outside the United States, forced municipal mergers were a popular policy in many European countries and Canadian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s. The city of Laval, just north of Montreal, and the unicity of Winnipeg owe their origins to this period - both amalgamations failed to meet their original objectives. Despite the emergence of choice theory - which justifies municipal fragmentation on market principles - some politicians and public…
Les villes anglophones au Québec
L'objectif du présent article est d'analyser l'importance de l'existence des municipalités à majorité anglophone, tant pour les anglophones du Québec que pour l'ensemble de la province. Les questions fondamentales qui sous-tendent cet article sont les suivantes : quel était le rôle de la question linguistique dans le processus des fusions municipales ayant eu lieu récemment au Québec, particulièrement celles qui ont mené à la création de la nouve…
Cities in Transition
Democratic policing”
Recently, there has been much controversy and confusion about the concept of “police independence” in the U nited K ingdom and C anada. The concept loomed large during the I pperwash Inquiry, in which the alleged political direction of the O ntario P rovincial P olice was a major issue. These proceedings were partly concurrent with another A boriginal occupation in C aledonia, O ntario. The Inquiry's final report recommended adopting a “democrati…
Commentary on Politics of Urbanism
Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City is Warren Magnusson's most recent book. It will find a permanent place as a key contribution in the annals of urban studies, urban politics, political and state theory and international relations, marking a turning point in the way scholars, activists and policymakers see the world. In particular, Magnusson fundamentally questions how we understand and analyse our world from the perspective of the state (t…
What is a meeting? Municipal councils and the O ntario ombudsman
In recent decisions, the Ontario ombudsman has developed his own definition of a “meeting” of a municipal council. The definition derives more from American statutes and judicial decisions than from any prior interpretation of Ontario (or other Canadian) law. The ombudsman's rulings claim that the law prevents municipal councillors from meeting together informally “to lay the groundwork necessary” for the council to exercise its authority. He mis…
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