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From the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: News

AbstractA description of the act governing local authorities under Fascist rule.

By constitutional provision and judicial decision many fields of government activity which have been expanding rapidly since the Second World War fall under the jurisdiction of the provincial governments. The result has been an extraordinary growth in the scope of provincial government and a decided shift in power of the finely balanced federal system of Canada. Although there have been several studies on the federal side of the coin, little attention has been paid to the effect of growth of government activity on provincial politics. The focus of this study is on government institutions in Ontario and, more particularly, on the effect of parliamentary changes (federal and provincial) on legislative-executive relations in the province. Ontario provides excellent material for a case study on this subject: to a large extent it establishes the trends which eventually occur in the other regions of the country. Professor Schindeler emphasizes the importance of the role of the legislature as a check on the executive. (As Justice Frankfurter pointed out, "the history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.") He investigates the ways in which the executive branch of the Ontario government was adapted to cope with its increased responsibilities after the Second World War, and how the legislative branch was modified to allow it to understand, criticize, and so control the executive. At the same time, in order to create a standard for evaluating Ontario's institutions, the author compares this provincial set-up with the larger and more familiar models of parliamentary government at Westminster and Ottawa. Professor Schindeler concludes that the situation in Ontario up to 1965 confirms the trend observed in other western democracies, that the legislative branch has been almost completely dominated by the executive which has been more readily modified to meet the demands of the social welfare state. A number of fundamental reforms suggested by Professor Schindeler throughout the book have now been implemented at Queen's Park

Typewritten ms. ; Thesis (M.A.)--Univ. of California. ; Bibliography. ; Mode of access: Internet.

City Politics in Canada offers a new perspective on Canadian municipal politics. Its concern is not with the mechanics of government, but with the practice of politics at the local level. Its focus, moreover, is on seven specific political systems at the heart of what are arguably the most important metropolitan areas in Canada. This book marks the beginning of an effort to specify what is distinctive about Canadian politics at the munisipal level, in relation to practice at other levels and in ther countries. The essays that form the core of City Politics in Canada were commissioned from leading authorities on local politics in the citizes concerned: Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Helifax, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Edmonton. The result is a set of accessible and highly informative essays, each written from a different perspective and based on a diferent approach to the subject, but each contributing to a general portrait of Canadian city politics. Warren Magnusson's introductory essay is itself a sketch for such a portrait. Especially designed for readers who are new to the subject, this essay reviews the development of local government and politics in Canada as a whole. It explains those features of municipal politics that the authors of the case studies have had to take for granted, and it sets the context for comparative analysis. Such analysis is Andrew Sancton's concern in his concluding essay. He bases his observations on the studies in this book, and pays particular attention to the way in which the pattern revealed differs from the American and the British. As he says, Canadian city politics is almost exclusively about boosterism, land development, and the enhancement of property. This is its unifying and distinguishing feature -- a feature that is clarified by the analyses in each chapter of City Politics in Canada

Das umfangreichste und detaillierteste Verzeichnis von Ortsnamen in Deutschland bietet eine außerordentliche Informationsfülle: über 136.000 Ortsbezeichnungen, darunter nicht nur selbstständige Städte und Gemeinden, sondern über 100.000 sonst nicht dokumentierte kleine und kleinste Dörfer, Siedlungen, Wohnplätze, Gehöfte und Weiler deren Zugehörigkeit zur kommunalen Gebietskörperschaft (Stadt oder Gemeinde) mit Gemeindeschlüssel Einwohnerzahl, Fläche, Telefonvorwahl, geographische Länge und Breite, Höhe über NN und UN/LOCODE Die jeweils zuständigen Behörden von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen sowie der Gerichtsbarkeit für jeden Ort in Deutschland: Verwaltungsgemeinschaften, Verbandsgemeinden, Samtgemeinden, Ämter Kreis, Regierungsbezirk, Bundesland ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit, Arbeitsgerichtsbarkeit, Finanzgerichtsbarkeit, Sozialgerichtsbarkeit, Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit außerdem: Standesämter, Finanzverwaltung, Versorgungsverwaltung, Gesundheitsämter, Gewerbeaufsichtsämter, Agenturen für Arbeit, Jobcenter, Industrie- und Handelskammern, Zollverwaltung, "Einheitliche Ansprechpartner" laut EU Dienstleistungsrichtlinie.

This is a study of government and administration in the province of Munster, Ireland, in the reign of James I. After the 1601 Battle of Kinsale the whole fabric of life of the Gaelic and Old English sections of the population changed irrevocably. A new influx of New English planters heightened tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Using the Council Book of Munster (BL, Harleian 697) I have reconstructed the administrative structure through which the south of Ireland was controlled. The role of the lord president's court and its operation are examined and its impingement on the lives of the general population is considered. I have identified the lower ranks of officialdom which supported the institution of the presidency and compared the operation of this system of local government with that in Wales and the North of England. At this period local government officials of longer-standing – such as sheriffs – supported the presidency. They were augmented with new (or renewed) officials such as justices of the peace, collectors, and escheators. These local government structures, together with many minor posts, are examined and many of the personnel identified. This work demonstrates that military adventurers were replaced by bureaucratic adventurers and examines whether government intentions of making Ireland a mirror-image of English law and civility were attained. The study shows how upwardly-mobile, impecunious individuals were able to amass wealth and influence courtesy of the many government positions available in the reinvigorated plantation of Munster. This small group of people, in virtue of their Protestantism, supplanted the traditional Catholic community leaders and changed the face of Munster. Volume 2 of the thesis is a transcription of the Council Book of Munster (BL, Harleian 697), making this unique document available to a wider audience and facilitating early modern scholarship.