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Facing the Consequences: Women and Urban Governance Reform in Toronto and London
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FACING THE CONSEQUENCES: WOMEN AND URBAN GOVERNANCE
REFORM IN LONDON AND TORONTO
Sylvia Bashevkin
Director, Canadian Studies Program
Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
Paper prepared for the centennial conference of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, August 2003
ABSTRACT: How did Conservative government decisions to eliminate specific local units in London and Toronto affect women’s movement interests in these cities? The paper offers a preliminary look at the consequences of changes in urban structures in London since 1986 and Toronto since 1998, focusing at a conceptual level on institutional and movement-related factors drawn from the literature on political opportunity structures. It concludes that organized feminism in London seems reasonably buoyant despite the 14-year shutdown of regional government through 2000, while mobilization in Toronto appears to be suffering at least short-term effects following the closure and forced amalgamation of older downtown with inner suburban boroughs.
© Sylvia Bashevkin 2003
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FACING THE CONSEQUENCES: WOMEN AND URBAN GOVERNANCE
REFORM IN LONDON AND TORONTO
Sylvia Bashevkin
Director, Canadian Studies Program
Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
Paper prepared for the centennial conference of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, August 2003
ABSTRACT: How did Conservative government decisions to eliminate specific
local units in London and Toronto affect women’s movement interests in these
cities? The paper offers a preliminary look at the consequences of changes in
urban structures in London since 1986 and Toronto since 1998, focusing at a
conceptual level on institutional and movement-related factors drawn from the
literature on political opportunity structures. It concludes that organized feminism
in London seems reasonably buoyant despite the 14-year shutdown of regional
government through 2000, while mobilization in Toronto appears to be suffering
at least short-term effects following the closure and forced amalgamation of older
downtown with inner suburban boroughs.
© Sylvia Bashevkin 2003
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