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Protecting the Right of Local Self-Government

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2005

Warren Magnusson
Warren Magnusson
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University of Victoria
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Abstract

Abstract. Many people in Canada are frightened by the right of local self-government, because they are afraid of the privatization of public authority. This article suggests that municipalities can be otherwise conceived, and that a right of local self-government can be vindicated without impairing the capacity of the state or encouraging a debilitating privatism. The key is to understand that municipalities can be non-exclusive public authorities, on a different register from the state or civil society.

Résumé. La crainte de la privatisation des pouvoirs publics mène de nombreux Canadiens et Canadiennes à redouter le droit à l'autonomie gouvernementale locale. Cet article suggère qu'il est possible d'envisager les municipalités autrement, et qu'on peut justifier le droit à l'autonomie gouvernementale locale sans faire entrave aux compétences de l'État et sans encourager un privatisme débilitant. L'important est de comprendre que les municipalités peuvent exercer un pouvoir public non exclusif dans leur propre zone de compétence, jouant sur un registre différent de celui de l'État ou de la société civile.

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 897 - 922
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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