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In recent years, there have been changes in the status of participation in urban affairs. Over and above its inherent limits, this form of participation has been contributing to the development of a new political culture. Such at least is the hypothesis used here as a point of departure for the examination of the hearings and of the positions of the main categories of actors who have contributed to the development of the consultation policy defined by the city of Montreal in 1988, as well as to its review in 1995, following the accession to power of a new political party. By accepting to participate in the definition of the public consultation policy on the municipal scene, the actors of civil society, particularly the representatives of the community and social movements, have undertaken a twofold process: a process of confrontation with the public authorities, and a process of building recognition of their own identity.
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AbstractWhy has “place” become so important in the redesign of American social policies? While most work on place-based policies and re-scaling take the state as the starting point, this article examines the links between socio-political mobilization and the state. The example of Los Angeles shows that the lack of fit between lived space and institutionalized space has generated place-based mobilization strategies, such as secession. These in turn encourage a new definition of social policies' territorial coverage. This conflict between lived space and institutionalized space comes out of reactions to new urban tensions, created by higher levels of immigration and economic restructuring.
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Through the exercising of its declaratory power, the federal Parliament has acquired legislative competence over the entire cycle of combustible nuclear materials. Hence, federally adopted legislation apply to nuclear stations. Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, assented to on June 23 1992 (not yet in force), specifies the nature, purpose and scope of public hearings held regarding the construction of nuclear power stations. The author's thinking on the part played by public hearings in the Canadian context leads him to formulate more general considerations on the need for a different structure of the decisionmaking machinery so as to take into account new values that important segments of the population are adhering to. More open and more democratic decision-making machinery both on the level of energy policy development and the implementation of specific projects are one of the avenues to be explored in order to achieve a greater understanding and acceptance of nuclear energy by the general public.
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Can we analyze environmental policies like any other public policy ? First we present theoretical and methodological difficulties of environmental policy analysis. Then we analyse a concrete public policy : agroecology. Finally we argue that agroecological policies can be explained thanks to public policy theories.
Keywords: agro-écologie, soutenabilité, sectorisation des politiques publiques, politisation, agroecology, sustainability, public policies, politicization
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Fifty years ago, in December 1959, Québec adopted a public libraries act. This legislation helped promote a public reading policy and has influenced the development of reading and public libraries in Québec since the 1970s. As a result, a departure from the position promoted earlier became possible. Intense periods, such as the Vaugeois plan, the book and reading policy and the creation of the Grande Bibliothèque, can be observed.
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Since 20 years or so, we assist, mainly under the pressure of sustainability imperatives, to the emergence of new political regulations of the relations between the societies and their environment and more precisely of the social uses of natural resources. These new modes of regulation, empirically noticeable, are characterised by a joint movement of rearticulating sector-specific policy logics, redefining territorial perimeters and pertinent regulation scales as well as of redefining and redistributing resources use rights. This article has for objective to identify and document these different modalities of questioning the existing logics (sectors, institutional territories and property rights) of the public action, then to propose the concept of functional space as an analytical tool allowing to account for alternative formatting of the public action on the one hand and as conceptual framework which could underlie a new political steering of the public action in favour of sustainability on the other hand.
Keywords: espace fonctionnel, droit de propriété, politique sectorielle, territoire institutionnel, action publique, durabilité, functional space, property rights, sector-specific policy, sector, institutional territory, public action, sustainability