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
    • Boudreau Julie-Anne, Keil Roger
    La réconciliation de la démocratie locale et la compétitivité internationale dans le discours réformiste à Toronto
    in Politique et sociétés, revue de la Société québécoise de science politique , Vol. 25, no 1, 2006 ,  2006
    Based on the example of Toronto, this article seeks to understand why many activists use the language of local democracy in their struggle against neoliberalism. Recent urban reforms have often been legitimated as "necessary" for global competitiveness. Yet, these reforms have been perceived by residents as a direct threat to their quality of life. While this antagonism has long been analysed as the opposition between "use value" and "exchange value", the return to power of a centre-left regime in Toronto is better characterized by a synthesis between these two poles, which exemplifies the process of normalizing neoliberalism.
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