Alberta's Local Governments: Politics and Democracy
- ISBN-10
- 0888642512
- ISBN-13
- 9780888642516
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 603
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Alberta
- Authors
- Jack Masson, Edward C. LeSage
Description
During the last decade, Alberta municipalities have endured hardships they have not faced since the Great Depression. Changes in the province's political structures appear to have been made primarily to transfer a greater share of the costs of local government to the municipalities, yet surprisingly few municipal politicians have resisted the province's financial policies.
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