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Moth-Balling Nuclear Plants Is The Best Plan, Erika Simpson Oct 1998

Moth-Balling Nuclear Plants Is The Best Plan, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

No abstract provided.


Intermunicipal Agreements: Case Studies In Durham And York Regions, Rebecca James Aug 1998

Intermunicipal Agreements: Case Studies In Durham And York Regions, Rebecca James

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the extent and nature of intermunicipal partnerships in Durham Region and York Region based on an inventory of public partnerships in the two regions and case studies of five intermunicipal agreements. The findings reveal that if municipalities form public partnerships in certain service areas, cost savings can be achieved while still maintaining individual municipal control and accountability.


When Is Bigger Not Better?: The Management And Delivery Of Social Services On Manitoulin Island, Mary Nelder Aug 1998

When Is Bigger Not Better?: The Management And Delivery Of Social Services On Manitoulin Island, Mary Nelder

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines whether the Ontario government’s creation of District Social Services Administration Boards (DSSABs) has accomplished the stated objectives of simplifying access to services and better servicing clients, as well as improving cost-effectiveness, coordination, innovation, the sharing of resources, and achieving economies of scale. A case study of Manitoulin-Sudbury reveals that the DSSAB for the two combined districts has been unsatisfactory and none of the stated objectives of the policy have been achieved.


Why A Strategic Plan?: A Review Of Strategic Planning In Selected Ontario Municipalities, Moira Winch Aug 1998

Why A Strategic Plan?: A Review Of Strategic Planning In Selected Ontario Municipalities, Moira Winch

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines whether strategic planning processes successfully assist municipal councils and staff in Ontario based on case studies of 11 municipalities in Ottawa-Carleton and the City of Burlington. The findings reveal that in many instances, strategic planning is being used successfully and the most important factor that contributes to its success is the leadership and commitment of council to the initiation and implementation of the plan.


Development Of A Model For User Fees: A Model On Policy Development In Creating And Maintaining User Fees For Municipalities, Jim Mcqueen Aug 1998

Development Of A Model For User Fees: A Model On Policy Development In Creating And Maintaining User Fees For Municipalities, Jim Mcqueen

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the relevance and significance of user fees in Ontario based on case studies that assess user fee policies in four municipalities in the Halton Region – Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton, and Oakville. The findings reveal that user fees have become a more prominent revenue source and they are an important component of a municipality’s revenue base.


The Birth Of The Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Richard Ramsay Jun 1998

The Birth Of The Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Richard Ramsay

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines whether the causes of amalgamation in Cape Breton County are similar to the causes that have driven other amalgamations in the Maritime Provinces. Interviews with key stakeholders and an analysis of reports associated with the amalgamation were conducted. The findings reveal that Cape Breton County is a unique case and the Government of Nova Scotia decided to amalgamate because it recognized the dismal financial position of several of the municipal units.


"...To Produce The Highest Type Of Manhood And Womanhood": The Ontario Housing Act, 1919, And A New Suburban Ideal, Jason Gilliland, Matt Sendbuehler Mar 1998

"...To Produce The Highest Type Of Manhood And Womanhood": The Ontario Housing Act, 1919, And A New Suburban Ideal, Jason Gilliland, Matt Sendbuehler

Geography & Environment Publications

While most scholars generally focus on the failings of the post-WWI Federal-Provincial housing scheme in Canada, we contend that it had far-reaching implications for three major facets of urbanism: housing policy, town planning, and residential architecture. We do so primarily through an examination of the impacts of the Ontario Housing Act, 1919, in the context of contemporary visions of ideal residential environments.

In the 1920s, a major reconceptualization of planning and architecture generated a new ideology of house, home and city which intended to remake existing cities and to create new, efficient and healthy settlements. The ideal city featured increasingly …


Claims On Housing Space In Nineteenth-Century Montreal, Jason Gilliland, Sherry H. Olsen Mar 1998

Claims On Housing Space In Nineteenth-Century Montreal, Jason Gilliland, Sherry H. Olsen

Geography & Environment Publications

Space per person is a fundamental measure of equity in an urban society. From small samples of the Montreal population over the years 1861-1901, we infer substantial improvement in the average dwelling space available per person, but an extreme and persistent inequity in the distribution among households. The housing market remained polarised in terms of class and cultural identity. As crowding diminished, urban density increased, and the problem of working-class housing became, increasingly, one of collective rather than individual space. Families, through networks of kinship and neighbouring, found new ways to exert some control over vital urban micro-spaces. In a …


Fornix Lesions Can Facilitate Acquisition Of The Transverse Patterning Task: A Challenge For "Configural" Theories Of Hippocampal Function., T J Bussey, E Clea Warburton, J P Aggleton, J L Muir Feb 1998

Fornix Lesions Can Facilitate Acquisition Of The Transverse Patterning Task: A Challenge For "Configural" Theories Of Hippocampal Function., T J Bussey, E Clea Warburton, J P Aggleton, J L Muir

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Configural theories of hippocampal function predict that hippocampal dysfunction should impair acquisition of the transverse patterning task, which involves the concurrent solution of three discrimination problems: A+ versus B-; B+ versus C-; and C+ versus A-. The present study tested this prediction in rats using computer-graphic stimuli presented on a touchscreen. Experiment 1 assessed the effects of fornix lesions when the three problems were introduced sequentially (phase 1: A+ vs B-; phase 2: A+ vs B-, B+ vs C-; phase 3: A+ vs B-, B+ vs C-, C+ vs A-). Fornix lesions significantly facilitated acquisition of the complete transverse patterning …


Optimal Taxation In Life-Cycle Economies, Andres Erosa, Martin Gervais Jan 1998

Optimal Taxation In Life-Cycle Economies, Andres Erosa, Martin Gervais

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Privatization, Market Liberalization And Learning In Transition Economies, Rachael E. Goodhue, Gordon C. Rausser, Leo K. Simon Jan 1998

Privatization, Market Liberalization And Learning In Transition Economies, Rachael E. Goodhue, Gordon C. Rausser, Leo K. Simon

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Housing Taxation And Capital Accumulation, Martin Gervais Jan 1998

Housing Taxation And Capital Accumulation, Martin Gervais

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Privatization, The Market For Corporate Control, And Capital Flight From Russia, Ronald Wintrobe Jan 1998

Privatization, The Market For Corporate Control, And Capital Flight From Russia, Ronald Wintrobe

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Canadian Tax Deferred Savings Plans And The Foreign Property Rule, David Burgess, Joel Fried Jan 1998

Canadian Tax Deferred Savings Plans And The Foreign Property Rule, David Burgess, Joel Fried

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Capital Flight And Foreign Investment: Two Tales From China And Russia, Terry Sicular Jan 1998

Capital Flight And Foreign Investment: Two Tales From China And Russia, Terry Sicular

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Discrimination And Skill Differences In An Equilibrium Search Model, Audra J. Bowlus, Zvi Eckstein Jan 1998

Discrimination And Skill Differences In An Equilibrium Search Model, Audra J. Bowlus, Zvi Eckstein

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Substitution And Dropout Bias In Social Experiments: A Study Of An Influential Social Experiment, James Heckman, Neil Hohmann, Jeffrey A. Smith Jan 1998

Substitution And Dropout Bias In Social Experiments: A Study Of An Influential Social Experiment, James Heckman, Neil Hohmann, Jeffrey A. Smith

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Exchange Rate Effects Of Portfolio Shifts, Malte Krüger Jan 1998

Exchange Rate Effects Of Portfolio Shifts, Malte Krüger

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Garch Models, Jian Yang Jan 1998

Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Garch Models, Jian Yang

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Dual Betweenness, Zvi Safra, Uzi Segal Jan 1998

Dual Betweenness, Zvi Safra, Uzi Segal

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Household Structure And Labor Demand In Agriculture: Testing For Separability In Rural China, Audra J. Bowlus, Terry Sicular Jan 1998

Household Structure And Labor Demand In Agriculture: Testing For Separability In Rural China, Audra J. Bowlus, Terry Sicular

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Dynamic Hedging In Currency Crisis, Malte Krüger Jan 1998

Dynamic Hedging In Currency Crisis, Malte Krüger

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


The Design Of Policy Frameworks And The Role Of The Policy Advisor, J Clark Leith Jan 1998

The Design Of Policy Frameworks And The Role Of The Policy Advisor, J Clark Leith

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Serially Correlated Wages In A Dynamic, Discrete Choice Model Of Teacher Attrition, Todd R. Stinebrickner Jan 1998

Serially Correlated Wages In A Dynamic, Discrete Choice Model Of Teacher Attrition, Todd R. Stinebrickner

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Privatization, Market Liberalization And Learning In Transition Economies, Rachael E. Goodhue, Gordon C. Rausser, Leo K. Simon Jan 1998

Privatization, Market Liberalization And Learning In Transition Economies, Rachael E. Goodhue, Gordon C. Rausser, Leo K. Simon

Transition Economics Research Forum Reports (TERF)

No abstract provided.


Fabricating The Keynesian Revolution: An Overview, David Laidler Jan 1998

Fabricating The Keynesian Revolution: An Overview, David Laidler

Political Economy Research Group. Papers in Political Economy

No abstract provided.


India In The United Nations: The First Years, Balachandra Rajan Jan 1998

India In The United Nations: The First Years, Balachandra Rajan

Political Economy Research Group. Papers in Political Economy

No abstract provided.


Polling For Votes: Ccf And Liberal Political Marketing, 1940-1945, Daniel J. Robinson Jan 1998

Polling For Votes: Ccf And Liberal Political Marketing, 1940-1945, Daniel J. Robinson

Political Economy Research Group. Papers in Political Economy

No abstract provided.


Rotten Altruists, Saccharine Altruists, And Saints: Altruism And Social Optimality, Martin Zelder Jan 1998

Rotten Altruists, Saccharine Altruists, And Saints: Altruism And Social Optimality, Martin Zelder

Political Economy Research Group. Papers in Political Economy

No abstract provided.


Electoral Competition Under The Threat Of Political Unrest, Matthew Ellman, Leonard Wantchekon Jan 1998

Electoral Competition Under The Threat Of Political Unrest, Matthew Ellman, Leonard Wantchekon

Political Economy Research Group. Papers in Political Economy

No abstract provided.