This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local
democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how …

Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or
national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that …

Background Several studies have shown that an individual's state of health can significantly
affect their decision to vote, but analysis is often only done on a single level of government; …

To enable new research on local ideology and representation in Canada, we construct a
latent measure of the policy ideology of 37,500 Canadian Election Study respondents using …

Those developing good urban governance indicators face at least four major challenges:
concept definition, measure choice, sample choice and indicator evaluation. While data …

In this paper, we evaluate the effect of municipal amalgamations on election turnout in local
elections. Following recent studies, we argue that municipal mergers can lead to less …

Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities traces recurring debates about what constitutes
film's political potential and argues that the relation between film and urban space has been …

Do women vote for women and men for men? Do visible minorities vote for minority
candidates, and white voters for white candidates? And what happens when a minority …

In The Homevoter Hypothesis, William Fischel argues that concern for property values
influences the attitudes and behavior of homeowners toward municipal politics. Local …

The province of Ontario, Canada, has a longstanding history of non-partisanship in
municipal elections. In this distinctive context, we report results on citizen attitudes toward …