Leadership, Governance, and the Politics of Identity in Canada

ID:	HARP-512
Title:	Leadership, Governance, and the Politics of Identity in Canada
Source:	Canadian Ethnic Studies; 2001, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p4, 35p, 1 graph
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Year:	2001
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Keywords:	accountability, Canada, democracy, governance, human rights, movement and residency, religion, institutions, civil and political rights, self-determination
Abstract:	Community governance and leadership are vital to the process of identity formation. Group vitality is often closely tied to the depth and variety of community institutions. Historically, the institutions of Canada’s ethnnocultural communities were religiously based. A decline in clerical leadership resulted in ethnocultural organizations evolving away from appointing leaders and moved toward electing them. These efforts at democratizing ethnocultural governance were further motivated by heightened government support of communal organizations and the desire for greater accountability. During the 1990s a substantial reduction in federal assistance to national ethnocultural organizations resulted in a weakening of many of these bodies. In that decade a societal devaluation of ethnic identification combined with communal needs becoming more local in nature rendered ethnocultural community organizations less relevant on the national level.
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