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Fields of Authority: Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015 (IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance)

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Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a strange institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government –  library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and lots of others – provide important public products and services, spend large sums of public money, and raise vital questions about local democratic accountability.


In Fields of Authority, Jack Lucas provides the primary systematic exploration of local special purpose bodies in Ontario. Drawing on extensive research in local and provincial archives, Lucas uses a “policy fields” approach to give an explanation for how these local bodies in Ontario have developed from the nineteenth century to the current. A full of life and accessible study, Fields of Authority will appeal to readers all in favour of Canadian political history, urban politics, and urban public policy.

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