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"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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howe, Robert Brian
Otros Autores: Johnson, David, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Civil rights > Canada.
Human rights > Canada.
Administrative agencies > Canada.
Civil rights > Government policy > Canada.
Droits de l'homme > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Canada.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Civil rights > Government policy.
Administrative agencies.
Civil rights.
Human rights.
Grundrechte > Kanada.
Canada > Administration.
Canada.
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
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  • D
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  • F
  • G
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