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Local governance and the local political career in Canada: A sample dataset
Author(s) -
Lucas Jack
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
canadian public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1754-7121
pISSN - 0008-4840
DOI - 10.1111/capa.12118
Subject(s) - politics , local governance , corporate governance , sample (material) , political science , scale (ratio) , public administration , multilevel model , sociology , regional science , public relations , geography , management , economics , law , computer science , chemistry , cartography , chromatography , machine learning
This research note introduces and describes a new dataset of political actors from the city of Kitchener, Ontario. The dataset is comprised of 348 complete political careers, across four local institutions, from 1912 to the present. This research note aims to show that large‐scale databases of local political actors can contribute to our understanding of (a) local political careers, (b) the dynamics of formal and informal local institutions, and (c) the nature and boundaries of local multilevel governance. This note concludes with some practical advice for those who wish to build similar datasets in other Canadian cities.