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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...

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Autor principal: Howe, Robert Brian
Otros Autores: Johnson, David, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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 -- Y. 
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