A Different Kind of State?: Popular Power and Democratic Administration

edited by Gregory Albo, David Langille, and Leo Panitch

ISBN 10: 0195409078 / ISBN 13: 9780195409079

Published by Oxford University Press Canada, 1993

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owner's name in pen, else As New. x, 243 pages ; 23 cm Contents: I. Popular Power and Democratic Administration -- 1. A Different Kind of State? / Leo Panitch -- 2. Democratic Citizenship and the Future of Public Management / Gregory Albo -- II. Beyond the Welfare State: Popular Planning and Democracy -- 3. Creating a Developmental State: Reflections on Policy as Process / Maureen Mackintosh -- 4. Transforming the 'Fordist' State / Robin Murray -- 5. Reforming the Welfare State: The American Experience / Frances Fox Piven -- 6. Citizenship and Civil Society: Redressing Undemocratic Features of the Welfare State / David P. Shugarman -- 7. Capture or Co-management: Democracy and Accountability in Regulatory Agencies / Liora Salter -- 8. Democracy and Ecology: Envisioning a Transition to a Green Economy / Wally Seccombe -- III. Agencies for Democratization: Social Movements and Public Employees -- 9. A New Kind of Knowledge for a New Kind of State / Hilary Wainwright -- 10. Social Movements and the State: Presentation and Representation / Warren Magnusson -- 11. Social Movements and the American State: Legal Mobilization as a Strategy for Democratization / Michael W. Mccann and Helena Silverstein -- 12. Public-Sector Unions and the Possibilities for Democratic Administration in the US / Carol Maclennan -- 13. Democratizing the Local State: Issues for Feminist Practice and the Representation of Women / Sue Hawkins Findlay -- 14. Political Education for Democratic Administration / David V.J. Bell -- IV. Paradoxes of Power: Canada's Social Democratic Experience -- 15. Moving Beyond the Limited Democracy of Social Democracy / Meyer Brownstone -- 16. Democratizing Economic Policy Formulation: The Manitoba Experience / John Loxley -- 17. Public Participation in Welfare: The Winnipeg Child and Family Services System / Grant Reid -- 18. Public-Sector Unions and the Prospects for Democratic Reform under the Ontario NDP / Wayne Roberts -- 19. Social Movements and the NDP Government of Ontario / Kerry Mccuaig -- 20. Putting Democratic Administration on the Political Agenda / David Langille.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Different Kind of State?: Popular Power and Democratic Administration
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195409078
• ISBN 13: 9780195409079
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics

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Synopsis

A Different Kind of State? An introduction to a form of democratic administration which would reform the Canadian system of government so as to enhance public participation, improve the design of programmes and the delivery of services, and ensure a better working environment within the public sector. Full description

About the Author

Leo Panitch teaches in and is chair of the Political Science Department at York University.