This article examines the contemporary basis of legitimate governance in Canada by identifying and documenting four different bases of political authority: state-centred, market-based, expert and popular authority. The co-existence of these competing bases of authority, traced to cultural shifts and developments associated with globalization, creates conflicting domestic and international norms of procedural and substantive legitimacy. The article argues that effective and legitimate governing in Canada requires greater incorporation of elements of popular authority, and reform, not abandonment, of state-centred authority.

Drawing on the proliferating literature on multiculturalism, this article provides a theoretical and critical argument in support of public funding for minority cultural schools, as well as a critique of the Ontario Conservative government's proposal in 2001 to extend tax credits to parents who enroll their children in private schools in Ontario. It argues that governments in Canada committed to the idea of multiculturalism have an obligation to promote the maintenance and flourishing of minority cultures through education and financial support. The article first outlines and refutes neutralist liberal arguments against public funding for minority religious and culturally education, and demonstrates what is meant by a right to culture and the attendant duties such rights impose on the state. It then raises and responds to concerns about such cultural pluralist policies and suggests ways to balance group demands for public funding with other values the state wishes to support. It argues that the Ontario government's proposal to provide tax credits for private education without regulation does not respond to concerns about balancing the right to culture and teaching liberal citizenship values, and offers alternative policy recommendations in the conclusion.

In recent years, many governments have embraced new modes of economic governance that rely on public-private partnerships. These forms of governance effectively devolve authority and responsibility from the state, and instead rely on the policy networks found in civil society.This article argues that despite the general enthusiasm for such decentralized collaboration, there is significant variation in its meaning and practice. Comparing the public-private partnership strategies of two governments in Ontario in the 1990s, the article analyzes the origins and progress of two distinctive governance paradigms, looking for signs of economic innovation.The case studies demonstrate that each of the social democratic and neoliberal paradigms contains its own specific representational logic, organizational design, and policy purpose. The article underscores the analytical importance of linking the study of decentralized policy networks at the meso or local scale to macro-level political and economic factors that condition their operation and effects. It concludes with a discussion of the obstacles to institutional innovation in Ontario, and the conditions that facilitate successful public-private partnerships in economic governance.

This article evaluates whether municipal amalgamations in the Canadian province of Ontario met the provincial government's objectives of employing fewer politicians while maintaining councillors' accessibility to citizens. On the basis of a survey of residents and interviews with community leaders and councillors, the article concludes that in the amalgamations studied, the provincial government achieved its objectives.

This article concerns the political ramifications of character-giving, the work we do intensifying our ideals in the environments and populations around us. The premise here is that strategies of character-giving are just as crucial to the construction of a well-ordered society as the promotion of justice or stability. This theme is explored through an examination of the works of Christopher Alexander, a modern urban planner who shares many of the concerns of contemporary political science. Alexander's central project is to learn how to bring a more humane and democratic character to the modern cityscape. This kind of "reconstructive" humanism might be seen as a fitting model for renewal in political science.

COURTNEY, JOHN C. Commissioned Ridings: Designing Canada's Electoral Districts. By Jennifer Smith 1075

HIEBERT, JANET L. Charter Conflicts: What is Parliament's Role? By Matthew Hennigar 1076

COTÊ, ROCH ET MICHEL VENNE, sous la direction de. L'annuaire du Québec 2003. Par Marc Chevrier 1078

SROKA, GHILA. Où va le Québec? Par Christine Bout De L'An 1080

HOBERG, GEORGE, ed. Capacity for Choice. By Noemi Gal-Or 1081

MCFARLANE, LAWRIE AND CARLOS PRADO. The Best-Laid Plans. Health Care's Problems and Prospects. By Tamara Daly 1083

FUDGE, JUDY AND ERIC TUCKER. Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948. By Greg Albo 1084

CHIPMAN, JOHN G. A Law unto Itself: How the Ontario Municipal Board Has Developed and Applied Land Use Planning Policy. By David Siegel 1087

HART, MICHAEL. A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization. By John Kirton 1088

MORTON, DESMOND. Understanding Canadian Defence. By Alistair D. Edgar 1090

JOYAL, ANDRÈ. Le développement local. Comment stimuler l'économie des régions en difficulté. Par Guy Chiasson 1091

ROTHSTEIN, BO AND SVEN STEINMO, eds. Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change. By Andrew F. Johnson 1093

BACCIGALUPO, ALAIN. Police et droits de l'homme : droit pénal comparé Canada- France. Par Richard Dubé 1094

CARTIER, MICHEL. Les groupes d'intéret et les collectivités locales. Une interface entre le citoyen et l'État. Par Andrée Fortin 1097

CAPLOW, THEODORE, ed. Leviathan Transformed: Seven National States in the New Century. By Eric Langenbacher 1098

BROOKS, STEPHEN, ed. The Challenge of Cultural Pluralism. By Yasmeen Abu-Laban 1100

SMITH, T. ALEXANDER AND RAYMOND TATALOVICH. Cultures at War: Moral Conflicts in Western Democracies. By Matthew Mendelsohn 1101

SCHULTZE, RAINER-OLAF, ROLAND STURM AND DAGMAR EBERLE, eds. Conservative Parties and Right-Wing Politics in North America: Reaping the Benefits of an Ideological Victory? By Bruce Foster 1102

LUTHER, KURT RICHARD AND FERDINAND MULLER-ROMMEL, eds. Political Parties in the New Europe: Political and Analytical Challenges. By Gretchen MacMillan 1104

REVEL, JEAN-FRANÇOIS. L'obsession anti-américaine. Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses conséquences. Par Yves Laberge 1106

TEICHMAN, JUDITH A. The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America: Chile, Argentina and Mexico. By Jean F. Mayer 1108

ROSECRANCE, RICHARD AVEC BERTRAND BADIE, PIERRE HASSNER ET PIERRE DE SENARCLENS. Débat sur l'État virtuel. Par Jean-François Thibault 1110

ARCHARD, DAVID AND COLIN M. MACLEOD, eds. The Moral and Political Status of Children. By Jean Bethke Elshtain 1112

HOLLAND, NANCY J. AND PATRICIA HUNTINGTON, eds. Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger. By Leslie Paul Thiele 1114

VILLA, DANA. Socratic Citizenship. By Carol McNamara 1116

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