| Restraining Equality: Human Rights Commissions in Canada Contributor(s): Howe, R. Brian (Author), Johnson, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802082637 ISBN-13: 9780802082633 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $38.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2000 Annotation: Restraining equality addresses the contemporary financial, social, legal, and policy pressures currently experienced by human rights commissions across Canada. Using a blend of public policy analysis, historical research, and legal analysis, Howe and Johnson trace the evolution of human rights policy within this country and explore the growing tensions between rights consciousness and the restraint of rights that have arisen over the past two decades. The authors study these tensions and analyze their implications in relation to the delivery of equality rights in both federal and provincial jurisdictions since World War Two. Key features of the research include a series of interviews with human rights commission officials and a survey of advocacy groups, business organizations, and human rights staff concerning the performance of these commissions. The empirical data are designed to probe the internal workings of human rights commissions and levels of satisfaction of their employees. Howe and Johnson analyze these commissions in light of the theoretical literature regarding the reinvention and reform of government, taking a clear stand in favour of the use of the reform thesis to understanding the current evolution of human rights policy. Restraining Equality provides the reader with a blend of public policy, legal, and political analyses, as well as an historical review of human rights in Canada, that will appeal to students, advocacy groups, and bureaucrats. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 323.097 |
| LCCN: 00267826 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 8.99" (0.69 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 evolution of human rights policy within this country and explore the stresses placed on human rights commissions resulting from greater fiscal restraints and society's rising expectations for equality rights over the past two decades. The authors analyse sources of these tensions in relation to the delivery of equality rights in both federal and provincial jurisdictions since the Second World War. Through a series of interviews with human rights commission officials and a survey of advocacy groups, business organizations, and human rights staff the authors explore the performance and the internal workings of these. Howe and Johnson also analyse human rights commissions in light of the theoretical literature and empirical data, and discuss the political and legal contexts in which the commissions operate, and the reform measures that have been implemented. |
Contributor Bio(s): Howe, R. Brian: - R. Brian Howe is a professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Children's Rights Centre at Cape Breton University. Johnson, David: - David Johnson is Professor of Political Science at Cape Breton University. |