Bulletin n. 1/2006
May 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
    • Donald Betsy
    The politics of local economic development in Canada's city-regions: New dependencies, new deals, and a new politics of scale
    in Space and Polity , Volume 9, Number 3 / December ,  2005 ,  261-281
    This paper examines the current round of ‘scale politics’ between Canada's largest global cities and the existing national policy architecture and intergovernmental context. Economic actors in Canada's largest city-regions feel hamstrung by the existing institutional arrangements which remain ill-suited to the changing urban realities and global spatial flows. While the long-standing national regime is now under challenge, the extent to which it can be changed is also under question as the federal government seems reluctant to implement any explicit urban-based policies that could be seen further to accentuate regional (especially urban–rural) difference in Canada. The main thrust of this paper, then, is to provide an explanation for the limits of institutional convergence in the politics of local economic development in Canada. This is not to say that there is not evidence of convergence in terms of economic strategies and institutional responses, only that Canada's particular round of ‘scale politics’ must be situated in the history of Canada's particular national economic regime, including the origins of local economic development, state forms and history of local dependencies.
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