The size and sources of municipal incumbency advantage in Canada

J Lucas - Urban Affairs Review, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This article uses a new dataset of nearly 2,000 municipal elections from 1874 to 2018 to
estimate the size of municipal incumbency advantage in Canada for the first time …

Gender, race and political ambition: The case of Ontario school board elections

AM Davidson, RM McGregor… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
The political underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in Canadian politics is well
documented. One political arena that has yet to be examined in this respect, however, is …

Electoral behaviour in multilevel systems

JF Daoust, A Blais - … on decentralization, devolution and the state, 2021‏ - elgaronline.com
In this chapter, we review the current state of affairs on electoral behaviour in multilevel
systems. The simple question that we address is whether people behave differently in local …

Public expectations of school board trustees

A Piscitelli, AML Perella, A Payler - Canadian Journal of Educational …, 2022‏ - erudit.org
School board trustees play an important role in the education of children throughout Ontario.
Using an online survey of Ontario residents, expectations of school board trustees are …

Accidental paradiplomats? The curious case of Ontario school board budgets and Canadian soft power projection

MPA Murphy - International Journal, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
From the earliest studies of soft power in International Relations, the importance of
educational exchanges has been well-established. Studies of international education in the …

Navigating the space between politics and administration: The informal practices of Ontario school board trustees

A Payler, A Piscitelli, S Geobey - Canadian Public …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Through interviews with 25 school board trustees in Ontario, this article contributes to the
growing literature that explores the politics‐administration dichotomy at the local …

The encouragement and constraint of distributed leadership via education policy reform in Nova Scotia, Canada: A delicate balancing act

M Williams, DC Young - International Journal of Education Policy and …, 2022‏ - erudit.org
This article examines how recent policy reforms in Nova Scotia, Canada, encouraged and
constrained distributed leadership in the provincial public education system. The study …

Does Democracy Die in Darkness? An Examination of the Relationship between Local Newspaper Health and Turnout in Municipal Politics

B Andrews, S Pruysers - … of Political Science/Revue canadienne de …, 2022‏ - cambridge.org
This study is, to our knowledge, the first quantitative analyses of the relationship between
local print newspaper health and voter turnout in Canadian municipal elections. Municipal …

Ballot Roll-Off in the 2021 Alberta Senate Nominee Election: Political Identities and Participation Patterns

RM McGregor, J Lucas - … of Political Science/Revue canadienne de …, 2024‏ - cambridge.org
In 2021, Alberta held Senate nominee elections for the fifth time in the province's history.
Conducted concurrently with municipal elections and multiple referenda/plebiscites, the …

Stealth democracy and the school board trustee

A Piscitelli, A Perrella - Canadian Public Administration, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The value of elected school board trustees has been a topic of debate. Several provinces in
Canada have already eliminated them, with Manitoba currently considering abolishing them …