Christopher Leo
Biographic Data
| ID | 259678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Leo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Leo |
| SIGNATURE | LEO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Multilevel Governance of Immigration and Settlement: Making Deep Federalism Work
This study addresses the question of how best to ensure that national immigration policies are appropriately adjusted to meet the disparate requirements of different communities. We argue that this is the core objective of multilevel governance, which, however, has become freighted with competing ideological objectives, objectives that are perhaps best expressed in Hooghe and Marks's distinction between type I and type II governance, the former o…
Multi-Level Governance and Ideological Rigidity: The Failure of Deep Federalism
This article addresses multi-level governance by posing the following question: How can we have policies that are truly national and yet fully take into account the very significant differences among regions and communities? A major objective of this approach is to get beyond ideologically driven, dichotomous debates, which often leave the impression that the study of multi-level governance can be reduced to a choice between two alternatives—for …
Deep Federalism through Local Initiative: Unbundling Sovereignty in Winnipeg
Building on an international literature that stresses the growing importance of cities in both the economy and governance, this paper proceeds from the premise that national government support is essential to the maintenance of a social safety net, but that a great deal of local initiative is also necessary in order to ensure that national government funds are spent in a manner appropriate to the very different conditions in different cities. The…
Being Realistic about Urban Growth
This paper distinguishes between cities experiencing high rates of growth and those growing more slowly and argues that it is critically important to take rates of growth into consideration in policy making. Using the examples of Vancouver and Winnipeg, we explore the economic, physical, and political differences associated with their different rates of growth and consider the policy implications of these differences. We critically compare polici…
Deep Federalism: Respecting Community Difference in National Policy
The literatures of both federalism and urban politics conclude that economic, technological and political changes on a global scale have produced limitations on the capacities of national governments, while enhancing the economic and political importance of urban-centred regions. A practical implication is that cities have become central to the study of federalism. This article attempts a synthesis of what we can learn from the federalism and urb…
Slow Growth and Urban Development Policy
This article distinguishes between cities experiencing high rates of growth and those growing more slowly and argues that 1) widely held North American assumptions to the contrary, slow growth is not a pathology; and 2) because we do tend to view it as a pathology, we fail to plan for it and instead follow policies more appropriate to rapidly growing centers. Using Winnipeg as the primary example of a slowly growing city, but drawing on a wide ra…
Regional Growth Management Regime: The Case of Portland, Oregon
Students of regime politics have tacitly agreed that the geographic limits of the regime will be the city limits or, at most, the boundaries of the metropolitan area. This is understandable in light of the fact that much of the regime literature focuses on the politics of urban development, that is, the politics involved in the implementation of growth strategies. However, if a ruling political coalition pursues the objective of achieving a plan …
Is Urban Sprawl Back on the Political Agenda: Local Growth Control, Regional Growth Management, and Politics
The author argues that the apparent ineffectuality of efforts to control urban sprawl is in some part a result of a failure to distinguish between growth controls, which have a well-earned reputation as a thinly veiled form of NIMBYism and regional growth management (RGM), which involves the attempt to set out rules for development that are designed to preserve the livability, viability, and attractiveness of an urban area as a whole. This study …
Global Change and Local Politics: Economic Decline and the Local Regime in Edmonton
The literature on urban politics shows the global economy has a massive influence on local decisionmaking and that the character of local politics varies markedly from city to city. Less attention is devoted, however, to the relative impact of global and local forces on a particular city. This paper addresses that gap by testing the views of Peterson, Mollenkopf and Stone against a case study. The Edmonton case study provides an ideal research se…
Political Stability and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
The Kenya African Union
Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity
Land and Class in Kenya
Land and Class in Kenya
policy; in the golden age of the 1970s, Nigeria could wield its 'oil weapon* to discipline recalcitrant neighbours and even intimidate Britain. A third shared outlook is a certain disposition to question Nigeria's credentials as a genuinely non-aligned state, despite the evident changes since the civil war; here, the discussion is hampered by the absence of any clear and consistent definition of non-alignment. Finally, there is general recognitio…
Who Benefited From the Million-Acre Scheme? Toward a Class Analysis of Kenya's Transition to Independence
RÉSUMES'il est reconnu que Million-Acre Settlement Scheme a influencé la structure de la société indépendante du Kenya et a joué un rôle important dans sa transition vers l'indépendance, nous manquons d'analyse satisfaisante de la répartition sociale de ses bénéfices. En utilisant le travail de Gary Wasserman comme point de départ, l'article poursuit trois objectifs: 1. identifier les profits et les pertes des groupes engagés dans le projet;2. sa…
The Failure of the 'Progressive Farmer' in Kenya's Million-Acre Settlement Scheme
Conventional WisdomOne of the most widely accepted assumptions in the literature on rural development during the past two decades has been the belief that 'favouring the progressive farmer' is prudent policy. The safest way of investing rural development funds, it has been argued repeatedly, is to allocate them to those who have already succeeded in farming or business, or who have had relevant training or education. They are the people who are t…
The Multilevel Governance of Immigration and Settlement: Making Deep Federalism Work
This study addresses the question of how best to ensure that national immigration policies are appropriately adjusted to meet the disparate requirements of different communities. We argue that this is the core objective of multilevel governance, which, however, has become freighted with competing ideological objectives, objectives that are perhaps best expressed in Hooghe and Marks's distinction between type I and type II governance, the former o…
Regional Growth Management Regime: The Case of Portland, Oregon
Students of regime politics have tacitly agreed that the geographic limits of the regime will be the city limits or, at most, the boundaries of the metropolitan area. This is understandable in light of the fact that much of the regime literature focuses on the politics of urban development, that is, the politics involved in the implementation of growth strategies. However, if a ruling political coalition pursues the objective of achieving a plan …
Land and Class in Kenya
policy; in the golden age of the 1970s, Nigeria could wield its 'oil weapon* to discipline recalcitrant neighbours and even intimidate Britain. A third shared outlook is a certain disposition to question Nigeria's credentials as a genuinely non-aligned state, despite the evident changes since the civil war; here, the discussion is hampered by the absence of any clear and consistent definition of non-alignment. Finally, there is general recognitio…
Being Realistic about Urban Growth
This paper distinguishes between cities experiencing high rates of growth and those growing more slowly and argues that it is critically important to take rates of growth into consideration in policy making. Using the examples of Vancouver and Winnipeg, we explore the economic, physical, and political differences associated with their different rates of growth and consider the policy implications of these differences. We critically compare polici…
Deep Federalism: Respecting Community Difference in National Policy
The literatures of both federalism and urban politics conclude that economic, technological and political changes on a global scale have produced limitations on the capacities of national governments, while enhancing the economic and political importance of urban-centred regions. A practical implication is that cities have become central to the study of federalism. This article attempts a synthesis of what we can learn from the federalism and urb…
Is Urban Sprawl Back on the Political Agenda: Local Growth Control, Regional Growth Management, and Politics
The author argues that the apparent ineffectuality of efforts to control urban sprawl is in some part a result of a failure to distinguish between growth controls, which have a well-earned reputation as a thinly veiled form of NIMBYism and regional growth management (RGM), which involves the attempt to set out rules for development that are designed to preserve the livability, viability, and attractiveness of an urban area as a whole. This study …
Multi-Level Governance and Ideological Rigidity: The Failure of Deep Federalism
This article addresses multi-level governance by posing the following question: How can we have policies that are truly national and yet fully take into account the very significant differences among regions and communities? A major objective of this approach is to get beyond ideologically driven, dichotomous debates, which often leave the impression that the study of multi-level governance can be reduced to a choice between two alternatives—for …
Slow Growth and Urban Development Policy
This article distinguishes between cities experiencing high rates of growth and those growing more slowly and argues that 1) widely held North American assumptions to the contrary, slow growth is not a pathology; and 2) because we do tend to view it as a pathology, we fail to plan for it and instead follow policies more appropriate to rapidly growing centers. Using Winnipeg as the primary example of a slowly growing city, but drawing on a wide ra…
Deep Federalism through Local Initiative: Unbundling Sovereignty in Winnipeg
Building on an international literature that stresses the growing importance of cities in both the economy and governance, this paper proceeds from the premise that national government support is essential to the maintenance of a social safety net, but that a great deal of local initiative is also necessary in order to ensure that national government funds are spent in a manner appropriate to the very different conditions in different cities. The…
Global Change and Local Politics: Economic Decline and the Local Regime in Edmonton
The literature on urban politics shows the global economy has a massive influence on local decisionmaking and that the character of local politics varies markedly from city to city. Less attention is devoted, however, to the relative impact of global and local forces on a particular city. This paper addresses that gap by testing the views of Peterson, Mollenkopf and Stone against a case study. The Edmonton case study provides an ideal research se…
The Failure of the 'Progressive Farmer' in Kenya's Million-Acre Settlement Scheme
Conventional WisdomOne of the most widely accepted assumptions in the literature on rural development during the past two decades has been the belief that 'favouring the progressive farmer' is prudent policy. The safest way of investing rural development funds, it has been argued repeatedly, is to allocate them to those who have already succeeded in farming or business, or who have had relevant training or education. They are the people who are t…
Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity
Who Benefited From the Million-Acre Scheme? Toward a Class Analysis of Kenya's Transition to Independence
RÉSUMES'il est reconnu que Million-Acre Settlement Scheme a influencé la structure de la société indépendante du Kenya et a joué un rôle important dans sa transition vers l'indépendance, nous manquons d'analyse satisfaisante de la répartition sociale de ses bénéfices. En utilisant le travail de Gary Wasserman comme point de départ, l'article poursuit trois objectifs: 1. identifier les profits et les pertes des groupes engagés dans le projet;2. sa…
The Failure of the 'Progressive Farmer' in Kenya's Million-Acre Settlement Scheme
Conventional WisdomOne of the most widely accepted assumptions in the literature on rural development during the past two decades has been the belief that 'favouring the progressive farmer' is prudent policy. The safest way of investing rural development funds, it has been argued repeatedly, is to allocate them to those who have already succeeded in farming or business, or who have had relevant training or education. They are the people who are t…
Who Benefited From the Million-Acre Scheme? Toward a Class Analysis of Kenya's Transition to Independence
RÉSUMES'il est reconnu que Million-Acre Settlement Scheme a influencé la structure de la société indépendante du Kenya et a joué un rôle important dans sa transition vers l'indépendance, nous manquons d'analyse satisfaisante de la répartition sociale de ses bénéfices. En utilisant le travail de Gary Wasserman comme point de départ, l'article poursuit trois objectifs: 1. identifier les profits et les pertes des groupes engagés dans le projet;2. sa…
Land and Class in Kenya
policy; in the golden age of the 1970s, Nigeria could wield its 'oil weapon* to discipline recalcitrant neighbours and even intimidate Britain. A third shared outlook is a certain disposition to question Nigeria's credentials as a genuinely non-aligned state, despite the evident changes since the civil war; here, the discussion is hampered by the absence of any clear and consistent definition of non-alignment. Finally, there is general recognitio…
The Kenya African Union
Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity
Land and Class in Kenya
Political Stability and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Global Change and Local Politics: Economic Decline and the Local Regime in Edmonton
The literature on urban politics shows the global economy has a massive influence on local decisionmaking and that the character of local politics varies markedly from city to city. Less attention is devoted, however, to the relative impact of global and local forces on a particular city. This paper addresses that gap by testing the views of Peterson, Mollenkopf and Stone against a case study. The Edmonton case study provides an ideal research se…
Regional Growth Management Regime: The Case of Portland, Oregon
Students of regime politics have tacitly agreed that the geographic limits of the regime will be the city limits or, at most, the boundaries of the metropolitan area. This is understandable in light of the fact that much of the regime literature focuses on the politics of urban development, that is, the politics involved in the implementation of growth strategies. However, if a ruling political coalition pursues the objective of achieving a plan …
Is Urban Sprawl Back on the Political Agenda: Local Growth Control, Regional Growth Management, and Politics
The author argues that the apparent ineffectuality of efforts to control urban sprawl is in some part a result of a failure to distinguish between growth controls, which have a well-earned reputation as a thinly veiled form of NIMBYism and regional growth management (RGM), which involves the attempt to set out rules for development that are designed to preserve the livability, viability, and attractiveness of an urban area as a whole. This study …
Slow Growth and Urban Development Policy
This article distinguishes between cities experiencing high rates of growth and those growing more slowly and argues that 1) widely held North American assumptions to the contrary, slow growth is not a pathology; and 2) because we do tend to view it as a pathology, we fail to plan for it and instead follow policies more appropriate to rapidly growing centers. Using Winnipeg as the primary example of a slowly growing city, but drawing on a wide ra…
Being Realistic about Urban Growth
This paper distinguishes between cities experiencing high rates of growth and those growing more slowly and argues that it is critically important to take rates of growth into consideration in policy making. Using the examples of Vancouver and Winnipeg, we explore the economic, physical, and political differences associated with their different rates of growth and consider the policy implications of these differences. We critically compare polici…
Deep Federalism: Respecting Community Difference in National Policy
The literatures of both federalism and urban politics conclude that economic, technological and political changes on a global scale have produced limitations on the capacities of national governments, while enhancing the economic and political importance of urban-centred regions. A practical implication is that cities have become central to the study of federalism. This article attempts a synthesis of what we can learn from the federalism and urb…
Deep Federalism through Local Initiative: Unbundling Sovereignty in Winnipeg
Building on an international literature that stresses the growing importance of cities in both the economy and governance, this paper proceeds from the premise that national government support is essential to the maintenance of a social safety net, but that a great deal of local initiative is also necessary in order to ensure that national government funds are spent in a manner appropriate to the very different conditions in different cities. The…
The Multilevel Governance of Immigration and Settlement: Making Deep Federalism Work
This study addresses the question of how best to ensure that national immigration policies are appropriately adjusted to meet the disparate requirements of different communities. We argue that this is the core objective of multilevel governance, which, however, has become freighted with competing ideological objectives, objectives that are perhaps best expressed in Hooghe and Marks's distinction between type I and type II governance, the former o…
Multi-Level Governance and Ideological Rigidity: The Failure of Deep Federalism
This article addresses multi-level governance by posing the following question: How can we have policies that are truly national and yet fully take into account the very significant differences among regions and communities? A major objective of this approach is to get beyond ideologically driven, dichotomous debates, which often leave the impression that the study of multi-level governance can be reduced to a choice between two alternatives—for …
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