Fiduciary Government: Decentring Property and Taxpayers' Interests

Cooper, Davina

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“…It should be noted, however, that the establishment of a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of contributor s and beneficiaries simply replicates, or submerges, the apparent interest group antagonisms that prompt ed the legislative changes in the first place. It also suggests that the way the Board operationalizes its obligation to act in the interests of the entire Canadian working population will be significant (Cooper, 1997).…”

Section: Investment Stra Tegy and Fund Gov E R N An Cementioning

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Gendering the Pension Promise in Canada: Risk, Financial Markets and Neoliberalism

Condon

2001

Social & Legal Studies

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This article argues that retirement income provision in Canada is built on gendered assumptions, which produce material disadvantage for women. These inequalities are being exacerbated by current neoliberal trends towards the 'marketization' and individualization of pension provision, supported by tax, securities and corporate legal norms. The argument is developed using recent legislative changes to the operation of the Canada Pension Plan and recent developments in the regulation of mutual funds in Ontario as case studies. The article concludes by sketching out some possible points of departure for feminist interventions in pension privatization debates.

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Section: Investment Stra Tegy and Fund Gov E R N An Cementioning

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Gendering the Pension Promise in Canada: Risk, Financial Markets and Neoliberalism

Condon

2001

Social & Legal Studies

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“…In focusing on land rights as a technique of both castigation and subordination, I emphasise the rural character of this strategy. Elsewhere, I have explored how urban governance, deemed by senior governing bodies to be excessive, was contested and undermined through a range of strategies including ridicule, pressure, discipline, and the withdrawal of economic resources (see Cooper, 1994;1997a;1997b;1998). The different strategy explored in this paper therefore needs to be located within the particular geographical conditions of its production and contestation: namely, the specifically rural relationship of soil, authority and legitimacy.…”

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‘For the Sake of the Deer’: Land, Local Government and the Hunt

Cooper¹

1997

The Sociological Review

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Political activism by local government is a well known phenomenon in Britain. Less known are the interests affected. In this study, Somerset council's decision to ban hunting clashed with the long standing activities of the Quantock Staghounds. My discussion focuses on the conflict between hunt and council as a conflict of governance in which land rights provided both terrain and techniques of struggle. For the hunt, land rights functioned as a foundational basis for the hunt's authority and legitimacy. For Somerset, their decision to attack hunting through land ownership not only reveals the complex relationship between land and rural state governance, but also placed Somerset's own authority in jeopardy as the courts declared they could not ban hunting on moral grounds. Somerset's land rights were construed by the courts as dependent on pursuing management objectives. Similarly, the hunt's political credibility was also dependent on demonstrating their role in deer management. The paper concludes with the problems of discursively fusing management and governance.

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Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government

Cowan

1999

Housing Law and Policy

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Fiduciary Government: Decentring Property and Taxpayers' Interests

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Gendering the Pension Promise in Canada: Risk, Financial Markets and Neoliberalism

Gendering the Pension Promise in Canada: Risk, Financial Markets and Neoliberalism

‘For the Sake of the Deer’: Land, Local Government and the Hunt

Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government

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