Montréal, laboratoire politique - une métropole à l'épreuve du pouvoir d'agglomération
By: FAURE, Alain
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ArticlePublisher: Paris : ENA, 2003Revue Française D'Administration Publique 107, p. 369-379Abstract: Both the territory and the social and economic fabric of Montreal are extremely fragmented. Faced with this problem, at the end of the 1990s the government of Quebec announced its intention to implement a sweeping reform of local institutions. However, it was the provincial government of Quebec that took the lead, overhauling institutions with an unexpected result : Montreals urban area, the core of the governments project, was paradoxically divided, and Montreal, a new city located on its central island and which integrated all the so-called suburban communities, was given powerful institutions allowing it to restructure municipal competencies and the services of the agglomeration. Determined overall by the rationales of the citys élites, this reform reflects a hybrid political model
Both the territory and the social and economic fabric of Montreal are extremely fragmented. Faced with this problem, at the end of the 1990s the government of Quebec announced its intention to implement a sweeping reform of local institutions. However, it was the provincial government of Quebec that took the lead, overhauling institutions with an unexpected result : Montreals urban area, the core of the governments project, was paradoxically divided, and Montreal, a new city located on its central island and which integrated all the so-called suburban communities, was given powerful institutions allowing it to restructure municipal competencies and the services of the agglomeration. Determined overall by the rationales of the citys élites, this reform reflects a hybrid political model
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