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New Book by Professors Horak and Taylor
Political Science
In City Politics in Canada: Forty Years of Continuity and Change (University of Toronto Press 2026), co-editors Profs. Martin Horak and Zack Taylor, as well Jack Lucas at the University of Calgary, explore how social and economic transformations have reshaped the practice of politics in seven large Canadian cities: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Calgary. In doing so, they revisit and carry forward the ambition of City Politics in Canada, edited by the late Warren Magnusson (University of Victoria) and Western’s own Andrew Sancton in 1983. That landmark volume was the first to offer an in-depth view of Canadian city politics. Forty years later, a new generation of scholars take up the same expansive, cross-country goal. The editors’ introduction presents a holistic picture of urban change in Canada, complete with up-to-date social, economic, fiscal, and electoral data, and identifies important questions. The city chapters, written by local experts, illuminate the dynamics of political continuity and change over four transformative decades. In the closing chapter, the editors synthesize the findings to draw out new insights about the nature of Canadian urban politics.