Bulletin n. 3/2006
December 2006
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Fontan Jean-Marc, Hamel Pierre, Morin Richard, Shragge Eric
    Le développement local dans un contexte métropolitain. La démocratie en quête d'un nouveau modèle ?
    in Politique et sociétés, revue de la Société québécoise de science politique , Vol. 25, no 1, 2006 ,  2006
    Traditionally, local development in the urban context is defined at the level of neighbourhoods. We hypothesize that, with the influence of globalization, social actors, particularly those in local communities, should be turning towards urban spaces because it is the level not only for economic development, but also for managing social and environmental problems. In order to test our hypothesis, we examined empirically the practices of community organizations in the Montreal region, particularly as regards their approach and plans for local development and their commitment to local democracy. However, the results of this study did not allow us to confirm that hypothesis. That can be explained, at least in part, by the fact that the Montreal region has only recently become defined as a political space.
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