Institutional creation and death: Urban development agreements in Canada

Journal of Urban Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 529-548

  Doberstein, Carey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GOVERNMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CANADA;

EID: 82255175084     PISSN: 07352166     EISSN: 14679906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00566.x     Document Type: Article

References (98)

1. Adam, C., Bauer, M., Knill, C., & Studinger, P. (2007). The termination of public organizations: Theoretical perspectives to revitalize a promising research area. Public Organization Review, 7(3), 221-236.
2. Atkinson, M. (1993). Governing Canada: Institutions and public policy. San Diego Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
3. Auditor General of Canada (2005). Managing horizontal initiatives. Ottawa: Author.
4. Baumgartner, F.R., & Jones, B.D. (1993). Agendas and instability in American politics. Chicago University of Chicago Press.
5. Berman, S. (2001). Ideas, norms, and culture in political analysis. Comparative Politics, 33(1), 231-250.
6. Blyth, M. (1997). Any more bright ideas? The ideational turn of comparative political economy. Comparative Politics, 29(2), 229-250.
7. Blyth, M. (2001). The transformation of the Swedish model: Economic ideas, distributional conflict, and institutional change. World Politics, 54(1), 1-26.
8. Blyth, M. (2002). Great transformations: Economic ideas and political change in the twentieth century. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
9. Bradford, N. (2008). Rescaling for a generation? Canada's urban development agreements. Paper prepared for Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Vancouver BC, June 4-6.
10. Brooks, S. (2009). Canadian democracy (6th Ed.). Don Mills, ON Oxford University Press.
11. Bula, F. (2000). B.C. appoints a Downtown-East champion: Jim O'Dea will represent the province in a three-government attack on the problems of the infamous neighbourhood. Vancouver Sun, 3.
12. Burns, N. (1994). The formation of American local governments: Private values in public institutions. New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Campbell, J. (2002). Ideas, politics and public policy. Annual Review of Sociology, 28, 21-38.
14. Canada Newswire (1999). Canada, B.C., and Vancouver to cooperate on community-building in Vancouver. Canada Newswire, July 15.
15. Canada Newswire (2005). Bell Canada and VANOC support Vancouver Agreement plan for economic revitalization. Canada Newswire, January 19.
16. Canada West Foundation (2002). Cities at the crossroads: Addressing intergovernmental structures for Western Canada's cities. Calgary Author.
17. Carpenter, D. (2010). Reputation and power: Organizational image and pharmaceutical regulation at the FDA. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press.
18. Carpenter, D., & Lewis, D. E. (2004). Political learning from rare events: Poisson inference, fiscal constraints, and the lifetime of bureaus. Political Analysis, 12, 201-232.
19. Carrigg, D. (2003). More cash for downtown. Vancouver Courier, April 23.
20. Carrigg, D. (2009). How to get value for money? Lots of cash, lots of helpers, but no one in charge of bigger picture, observers say. The Province, February 17.
21. Conservative Party of Canada. (2005). Policy declaration. Available at . Accessed August 10, 2010.
22. Conservative Party of Canada (2006). Stand up for Canada, federal election platform. Available at . Accessed August 18, 2010.
23. Doblias, G., & Battye, F. (2005). Multi-partner funding for neighbourhood revitalization in Toronto. Report for the Centre for Urban and Community Studies. Toronto: GHK International (Canada) Ltd.
24. Druckman, J. (2004). Political preference formation: Competition, deliberation, and the (ir) relevance of framing effects. American Political Science Review, 98(4), 671-686.
25. Dube, F. (2000). Man with a mission. National Post, September 5.
26. Geddes, M., & Benington, J. (2001). Local partnerships and social exclusion in the European Union: New forms of local social governance? London Routledge.
27. Geva-May, I. (2004). Riding the wave of opportunity: Termination in public policy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 14(3), 309-333.
28. Globe and Mail Editorial (2004). How cities can break a jurisdictional logjam. The Globe and Mail, April 26.
29. Goar, C. (2006). Harper's radical federal vision. The Toronto Star, January 30.
30. Godfrey, J. (2004). Speech to Big City Mayors Meeting, Toronto, January 22.
31. Grant, D., Keenoy, T., & Oswick, C. (1998). Discourse and organization. London Sage Publications.
32. Green, D., & Shapiro, I. (1996) Pathologies of rational choice theory. New Haven, CT Yale University Press.
33. Greif, A., & Laitin, D. (2004). A theory of endogenous institutional change. American Political Science Review, 98(4), 633-652.
34. Hall, P. (1989). The politics of Keynesian ideas. In P. Hall (Ed.), The political power of economic ideas (pp. 361-391). Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press.
35. Hall, P. (1992). The movement from Keynesianism to monetarism: Institutional analysis and British economic policy in the 1970s. In S. Steinmo, K. Thelen, & F. Longstreth (Eds.), Structuring politics: Historical institutionalism in comparative analysis (pp. 114-154). Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
36. Hall, P. (1993). Policy paradigms, social learning and the state: The case of economic policy-making in Britain. Comparative Politics, 25, 275-297.
37. Hall, P., & Taylor, R. (1996). Political science and the three new institutionalisms. Political Studies, 44, 936-957.
38. Hall, R. (2003). The discursive demolition of the Asian development model. International Studies Quarterly, 47, 71-99.
39. Harper, S. (2004). My plan for open federalism. National Post, October 27.
40. Harper, S. (2006). An address by the Prime Minister on commitments to communities. June 2, 2006. Montreal . Available at .
41. Hay, C. (2001). The "Crisis" of Keynesianism and the rise of neoliberalism in Britain: An ideational institutional approach. In J. Campbell & O. Pederson (Eds.), The rise of neoliberalism and institutional analysis (pp. 193-218). Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press.
42. Hay, C., & Wincott, D. (1998). Structure, agency and historical institutionalism. Political Studies, 46, 951-957.
43. Heclo, H. (1994). Ideas, interests, institutions. In L. C. Dodd & C. Jillson (Eds.), The dynamics of American politics: Approaches and interpretations (pp. 366-392). Boulder, CO Westview Press.
44. Hirst, P. (1994). Associative democracy: New forms of economic and social governance. Cambridge Polity Press.
45. Hooghe, L., & Marks, G. (2003). Unraveling the central state, but how? Types of multi-level governance, American Political Science Review, 97(2), 233-243.
46. Howarth, D., & Stavrakakis, Y. (2000). Introducing discourse theory and political analysis. In D. Howarth, A. Norval, & Y. Stavrakakis (Eds.), Discourse Theory and Political Analysis. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
47. Howell, M. (2009). Special initiative spent $23.9 million on Downtown Eastside in six years. Vancouver Courier, February 6.
48. Isin, E. (1992). Cities without citizens: The modernity of the city as a corporation. Montreal Black Rose Books.
49. Juneau, A. (2005). Notes for an address to the Canada-UK Colloquia. Cities and National Success. Cardiff, Wales . November 25.
50. Kingdon, J. (1995). Agendas, alternatives and public policies. Boston Harper Collins.
51. Kjaer, P., & Pederson, O. (2001). Translating liberalization: Neoliberalism in the Danish negotiated economy. In J. Campbell & O. Pederson (Eds.), The rise of neoliberalism and institutional analysis (pp. 219-248). Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press.
52. Krotz, L. (1983). Winnipeg's facelift slow to materialize. The Globe and Mail, March 15.
53. Kuipers, S., & Boin, A. (2005). The life and death of public organizations: Revisiting the New Deal agencies. Paper presented at the 21st EGOS colloquium, Berlin, June 30-July 2.
54. Layne, J. (2000). Marked for success? The Winnipeg core area initiative's approach to Urban Regeneration. Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 23(2), 249-278.
55. Leo, C. (2006). Deep federalism: Respecting community difference in national policy. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 39(3), 481-506.
56. Lewis, D. (2002). The politics of agency termination: Confronting the myth of agency immortality. The Journal of Politics, 64(1), 89-107.
57. Lieberman, R. (2002). Ideas, institutions, and political order: Explaining political change. American Political Science Review, 96, 697-712.
58. Macleans Magazine (2001). Coordination in the Downtown Eastside. Macleans Magazine, 114(36), 26-30.
59. Martin, P. (2002). Speech by the Honourable Paul Martin, Minister of Finance for Canada, to members of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. May 21, 2002, Hamilton, Ontario .
60. Mason, M. (2006). Collaborative partnerships for urban development: A study of the Vancouver Agreement. Research Papers in Environmental & Spatial Analysis No. 108. London London School of Economics and Political Science.
61. Matas, R. (2009). Politicians failed to keep poverty a priority, architects of 2000 deal say. The Globe and Mail, February 16.
62. May, P. (1992). Policy learning and failure. Journal of Public Policy, 12(4), 331-354.
63. McLeod Institute (2004). In the spirit of the Vancouver Agreement: A governance case study. Calgary University of Calgary.
64. Milliken, J. (1999). The study of discourse in international relations: A critique of research and methods. European Journal of International Relations, 5(2), 225-254.
65. National Post (2002). Splendor and squalor: Beautiful and booming, Vancouver's downtown peninsula is an urban planning success story. National Post, August 24.
66. OECD (1998). Integrating distressed urban areas. Paris OECD Publications.
67. Ostrom, V., Bish, R., & Ostrom, E. (1998). Local government in the United States. San Francisco ICS Press.
68. Peters, G. (1998). With a little help from our friends: Public-private partnerships as institutions and instruments. In J. Pierre (Ed.), Partnerships in urban governance: European and American experience (pp. 11-33). London Macmillan.
69. Peters, G., & Hogwood, B. (1988). Births, deaths and marriages: Organizational change in the U.S. federal bureaucracy. The American Review of Public Administration, 18, 119-133.
70. Phillips, N., & Munir, K. (2004). The birth of the "Kodak moment": Institutional entrepreneurship and the adoption of new technologies. Organization Studies, 26(11), 1665-1687.
71. Pierre, J. (Ed.) (1998). Partnerships in urban governance: European and American experience. London Macmillan.
72. Powell, W., & DiMaggio, P. (Eds.) (1991). The new institutionalism in organizational analysis. Chicago University of Chicago Press.
73. Rogers, J. (2001). Governments in progress. Panel presentation to Federation of Canadian Municipalities Symposium, Cities in an Urban Century.
74. Schmidt, V. (2006). Institutionalism. In C. Hay et al. (Eds.), The state: Theories and issues (pp. 98-117). London Palgrave.
75. Schmidt, V. (2008a). Discursive institutionalism: The explanatory power of ideas and discourse. Annual Review of Political Science, 11, 303-326.
76. Schmidt, V. (2008b). From historical institutionalism to discursive institutionalism: Explaining change in political economy. Paper prepared for presentation at the American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, August 2008.
77. Schmidt, V. (2010). Taking ideas and discourse seriously: Explaining change through discursive institutionalism as the fourth "new institutionalism". European Political Science Review, 2(1), 1-25.
78. Schneider, A., & Ingram, H. (1993). Social construction of target populations: Implications for politics and policy. American Political Science Review, 87(2), 334-347.
79. Scott, W.R. (1991). Unpacking institutional arguments. In W. Powell & P. DiMaggio (Eds.), The new institutionalism in organizational analysis (pp. 164-182). Chicago University of Chicago Press.
80. Simeon, R. (2002). Political science and federalism: Seven decades of scholarly engagement. Kingston, ON Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.
81. Simpson, J. (2001). In search of a fix for urban drug misery. The Globe and Mail, August 10.
82. Smith, P., & Stewart, K. (2004). Local whole-of-government policymaking in Vancouver: Beavers, cats, and the mushy middle thesis. In R. Young & C. Leuprecht (Eds.), Canada: The state of the federation 2004, municipal-federal-provincial relations in Canada (pp. 251-272). Kingston, ON Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.
83. Stone, D. (1998). Causal stories and the formation of policy agendas. Political Science Quarterly, 104, 281-300.
84. Thelen, K. (2004). How institutions evolve: The political economy of skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
85. Toronto Star (2005a). New deal, civic zeal to rekindle big red "W": City gets to play with the big boys, neighbourhood shows signs of change. Toronto Star, May 14.
86. Toronto Star (2005b). "One-stop shop" for Regent Park: Plan would cut funding red tape Vancouver found success with idea. Toronto Star, March 30.
87. Toronto Star (2006). Miller can rewrite tale of two cities. Toronto Star, November 18.
88. Treasury Board of Canada (2003). Managing collaborative arrangements: A guide for regional managers. Ottawa Government of Canada.
89. Trist, E. (1983). Referent organizations and the development of inter-organizational domains. Human Relations, 36(3), 269-284.
90. Vancouver Agreement News Release (2003). Vancouver Agreement launches new economic, social and health programs to revitalize the Downtown Eastside, January 21.
91. Vancouver Agreement News Release (2005). Vancouver Agreement renewed for a second five-year term, April 4.
92. Vancouver Sun (2005). Urban development programme receives UN award. Vancouver Sun, May 7.
93. Weingast, B. (1995). A rational choice perspective on the role of ideas: Shared belief systems and state sovereignty in international cooperation. Politics and Society 23, 449-464.
94. Western Economic Diversification Canada (2000). Evaluation of urban development agreements. Retrieved August 25, 2010 from .
95. White, L. (2002). Ideas and the welfare state: Explaining child care policy development in Canada and the United States. Comparative Political Studies, 35(6), 713-743.
96. Yaffe, B. (2007). Going to the root of our inner-city woes. Vancouver Sun, November 10.
97. Young, R. (2006). Open federalism and Canadian municipalities. In K. Banting, R. Gibbins, P. Leslie, A. Noel, R. Simeon, & R. Young (Eds.), Open federalism: Interpretations, significnance (pp. 7-24). Kingston, ON Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.
98. Young, R., & Leuprecht, C. (2004). Introduction. In R. Young & C. Leuprecht (Eds.), Canada: The state of the Federation 2004, municipal-federal-provincial relations in Canada (pp. 1-22). Kingston, ON Institute of Intergovernmental Relations.