POL346Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Creative Class, Metrolinx, Rob Ford
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Urban politics in the news: the star figures out how to get toronto civic leaders to comment on rob. We will discuss: urban governance strategies, political-administrative relationships in local government. Urban governance strategies: different configurations of the governance process offer different. Table: most distinguishing features are, policy objectives, primary contingency, key instruments, key evaluative criterion. Political-administrative relationships: an important function of institutions is distinguishing the relationships within and between the political and administrative arms of local government, political= elected officials (canada: council, mayor, school boards, administrative= managers/ bureaucracy. Four functions and dimensions of urban governance: mission, policy, administration, management, to do with running the day to day bills. Strong mayor council: mayor over council, a bureaucracy without having a figure head, council who is setting policy but the mayor is the political head, found in the us, doesn"t exist institutionally in canada. Mayor weak council: mayor & council equal partners.
