Administration
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From ![]() Measuring Up: Constructing AccountabilityFrom: The Cult of Efficiency |
From The Cult of Efficiency: | Janice Gross Stein | 51 | 2001 | $5.10 Add |
![]() Negotiating So Everyone WinsSecrets you can use from Canada's top business, sports, labour and political negotiators |
Every day, people make deals that matter. But very few of us benefit from the public scrutiny and analysis that have helped Canada’s leading negotiation experts hone their craft. Hockey … | 336 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Netherlands: No “Disappearing” Text Messages — the Nokiagate, Assessing the growing practice of government officials relying on disappearing text messages to sidestep oversight and accountability |
In this chapter, Malone examines the2022 Nokiagate scandal in which Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was caught deleting government text messages, and contrasts the Netherlands’ transparency … | Matt Malone | 19 | 2026 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! New Zealand: Open-by-Default — Assuming the Public’s Right to Access, Discovering how governments can proactively release information, adopt an open-by-default approach, and shift to transparency by design |
In this chapter, Malone examines New Zealand’s open-by-default transparency model, illustrated by the 2011 disclosure of Peter Thiel’s citizenship dossier. | Matt Malone | 20 | 2026 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Norway: No Hiding the Past — the Public’s Overriding Right to Know, Evaluating when sensitive documents turn into historical records that no longer require confidentiality — and releasing them by default |
In this chapter, Malone examines Norway’s openness-by-default declassification system, the Quisling treason archive, and Canada’s Access to Information Act. | Matt Malone | 23 | 2026 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Oil-Lobby Power, Railway-Lobby Power |
Analyzes the rise of Stephen Harper against the backdrop of Big Oil interests. Identifies how oil lobby, backed by rail lobby, and supported by Harper pushed through additional deregulation. He … | Bruce Campbell | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part IPolitics and People: Cases in Council-Staff Relations |
This first chapter considers the relationship between staff and elected officials, and discusses the uniqueness of local governance and politics. | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part IICases in Finances |
Part II introduces municipal budgets and the broader municipal financial landscape in Canada. | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part IIICases in Planning and Economic Development |
Part III gives an orientation to land use planning and economic development issues and processes, highlighting key themes, debates and challenges of municipal government. | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part IVIntergovernmental Relations |
Part IV looks at the power imbalances and other complexities that emerge as local governments interact with higher levels of government to tackle policy solutions that require multiple levels of … | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part V Cases in Local Policy-Making |
Part V examines municipal policy issues and provides an overview of the policy-making process. Each chapter, while presenting a specific issue from a specific perspective, also more closely … | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Pipeline on Wheels |
Identifies how big corporations moved to get fracked North Dakota Bakken oil and bitumen to refineries, regularly ignoring basic safety practices. | Bruce Campbell | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Preface |
An introduction to the structure and purpose of the book and author acknowledgements. | Joseph Lyons; Zachary Spicer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Railway Makeover |
Discusses the privatization of CN Rail, and the impact of NAFTA on rail regulations. Identifies why privatized rail firms cut staffing levels, how the federal government allowed private rail … | Bruce Campbell | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Rights, Intimacy, and Family LifeFrom: The Rights Revolution |
From The Rights Revolution: | Michael Ignatieff | 28 | 2007 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Rights, Recognition, and NationalismFrom: The Rights Revolution |
From The Rights Revolution: | Michael Ignatieff | 29 | 2007 | $2.90 Add |









