As the century draws to a close, a growing number of economic and political analysts promote decentralization as a solution to the problems faced by Canadian federalism. This paper shows that the leading arguments on "decentralization" are problematic in two regards. First, many of those...

Since the late 1990s social science-based studies have allocated much less attention to public organizations. Based on the sixth Organization Studies summer workshop, this introductory paper suggests a diagnosis of such a decline as well as a research agenda. It lists some fundamental issues...