Restraining equality : human rights commissions in Canada /
"Restraining Equality addresses the contemporary financial, social, legal, and policy pressures currently experienced by human rights commissions across Canada. Through a combination of public policy analysis, historical research, and legal analysis, R. Brian Howe and David Johnson trace the ev...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Human Rights Legislation
- Ground Zero
- Pioneering Legislation
- The Dawn of Human Rights Commissions
- Expansionary Developments: Legislative Change
- Expansionary Developments: Judicial Interpretation
- Why Human Rights Legislation?
- Chapter 2: The Public Administration of Human Rights
- Commission Foundations: The Institutional Perspective
- Human Rights Commissions and Institutional Design: The Critique of the Courts
- The Administrative Rationale for Human Rights Commissions.
- The Legal Rationale for Human Rights Commissions
- The Organizational Design of Commissions
- General Agency Structure
- Organizational Design and Procedure: The Ontario Model
- Commission Structure
- Case Procedure
- Organizational Design and Procedure: The Federal Model
- Organizational Design and Procedure: The Quebec Model
- Organizational Design and Procedure: The British Columbia Model
- Conclusion: Administrative Options, Legal Constraints
- Chapter 3: Fiscal Restraint
- Expanding Commission Workloads
- The Contraction of Resources
- The Impact of Restraint.
- Variations in Restraint
- Revenue Availability
- The Size of Minorities
- Interest Group Pressures
- Administrative Structure
- Women in Power
- Political Party in Office
- Why Human Rights Restraint?
- Chapter 4: Coping with Restraint
- The Context of Contemporary Rights Administration
- The Reconfiguration of Public Administration: Reinvention or Reform?
- Human Rights Commissions and Reinvention
- Human Rights Commissions: Coping with Restraint
- Rethinking Case Management
- Case Screening
- Investigation and Conciliation
- Caseflow and Management Information Systems.
- Boards of Inquiry and Adjudication
- Public Education
- Systemic Discrimination
- Restraint and Reform
- Commissions and Organizational Models
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: The Paradox of Human Rights Policy
- Great Expectations
- A Human Rights Report Card
- The Overall Results
- The Perspective of Advocacy Groups
- The Perspective of Employers and Business Groups
- The Perspective of Human Rights Staff and Officials
- The Grand Paradox
- The Paradox, Part One: Rights Consciousness
- The Paradox, Part Two: Rights Restraint.
- The Paradox Constructed: Incompatible Expectations, Limited Capacities
- Viewpoints: 1. Crisis
- Viewpoints: 2. Balance
- The Pluralist Perspective: An Assessment
- Conclusion: The Paradox Continues
- NOTES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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