POLI 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Allocative Efficiency
15 Jun 2018
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Chapter 1 -- What is local government?
- Local government is a slippery term
o Including all municipalities and all other governmental entities
Municipal Corporations in English cities
- Municipal corporations mainly known as municipalities, most important components of
Canadian local government
- Is legally entitled to do whatever its charter or statute says it can do
- Act on behalf of themselves and their residents
- Engage in commercial trading
- Most citizens recognize that they are regulated by 3 government, the federal, the provincial and
municipal.
Different Kinds of Canadian Municipalities
- Much of Caada’s territory is ot icluded i ay uicipality
- Most populated agricultural areas are covered by rural municipalities
Special-Purpose Bodies
- Very similar to municipal except that they are established to carry out a single governmental
function
- Those govern these are either democratically elected or appointed by people who are
democratically elected
- Some of these are almost as powerful as municipalities and others are so weak that they are
hardly like governments
Financial significance of local government
- I 1913, local goverets accouted for 3% of gov’t spedig i Caada ad 1% provinces
Conclusion
- We defined what local government is and looked at its financial significance
Chapter 2 – Why Local government?
- the function of local government are generally related to some of the theoretical reasons why
local governments have been created in the first place
Imagining Provinces without Local Government
- provinces are central government
- the provinces would make all the decisions about matters within its constitutional sphere of
jurisdiction
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