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Presentation by Gabriel Eidelman (Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto). Gabriel is the 2011 recipient of the Blanche and Sandy van Ginkel Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance.
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A presentation by Adam Found, the 2010 recipient of the Alan Broadbent Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance funded by the Diamante Development Corporation and Dr. James Wong, on April 21, 2010 at the Munk School for Global Affairs.
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A presentation by Zack Taylor, the 2010 recipient of the Blanche and Sandy van Ginkel Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance funded by the Diamante Development Corporation, on March 10, 2010 at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
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Using capital cities in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States as case studies, this book examines federal policies towards capital cities, with a particular emphasis on how capital cities are funded and governed, and the extent to which the federal government compensates them for their unique role.
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The conventional theory of fiscal federalism, which sees earmarking largely as a means to deal with positive spillovers in local expenditures, explains neither the level of such grants nor the trends over time. Nor can it readily account for the existence of non-matching, but still categorical, block grants. In this paper, we explore several alternative perspectives that interpret earmarking as a response to information failures between governments and, even more fundamentally, to accountability issues that arise between governments as well as between governments and voters.
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Co-sponsored by Ideas That Matter, on June 8, 2009, Dr. Mark Kleinman, Director of the London City Charter, was joined by panelists Phillip Abrahams, Manager, Intergovernmental Relations, Strategic and Corporate Policy Division, City of Toronto; and Judy Pfeifer, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill and Knowlton.
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Co-sponsored by Ideas That Matter, on June 8, 2009, a presentation by Dr. Mark Kleinman, Director of the London City Charter. Dr. Kleinman was joined by panelists Phillip Abrahams, Manager, Intergovernmental Relations, Strategic and Corporate Policy Division, City of Toronto; and Judy Pfeifer, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill and Knowlton.
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A presentation by André Côté, a Masters student at the School of Public Policy and Governance and holder of the Alan Broadbent Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance, on March 25, 2009, at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
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