Un aspect de la représentation politique municipale : le nombre d’élus et leur mode de répartition dans les villes nord-américaines (Canada, États-Unis)
In France, all communes of comparable population have an equal number of elected municipal officials. Such is not the case in Canada and the United States. Drawing from a sample of one hundred North American cities, the analysis reveals a large disparity in political representation. The number of mu...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes
2007-12-01
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| Series: | L'Espace Politique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/435 |
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| Summary: | In France, all communes of comparable population have an equal number of elected municipal officials. Such is not the case in Canada and the United States. Drawing from a sample of one hundred North American cities, the analysis reveals a large disparity in political representation. The number of municipal counsellors is most often lower than in France and the variation from one city to another can be important. With respectively 51 and 50 elected officials, New York (population 8.1 million) and Chicago (2.9 million) have the highest number of municipal counsellors in the United States. In North America, only Montréal has more with 64 for a population of 1.6 million. Paris has 163 for 2.1 million inhabitants. Dallas and Houston have only 14 elected officials, but the most extreme case is Los Angeles which with 15 for 4 millions residents, hence a ratio of 1 : 273 000. In 95 % of the cases, North American cities are divided into districts for electoral purposes, but a third of them have elected officials at the scale of the entire municipality. |
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| ISSN: | 1958-5500 |