Resumen de Training a Spotlight on Urban Citizenship: The Case of Women in London and Toronto.
The article presents information on social scientists who are rarely able to conduct their research under laboratory-like experimental conditions. Two large cities evolve in stable, Westminster-style, parliamentary systems. Each metropolitan area holds roughly 15% of the respective country's total population, and receives annually about half of its new immigrants. The history of social mobilization in one city, London, is colored from time to time by militant protest, often directed against the highly concentrated power of the British unitary state. In the other context, Toronto, civic engagement is for the most part moderate and measured, targeted at multiple levels of Canada's decentralized federal political scheme. In London, central government elites orchestrate a highly contentious mayoral nomination process. They effectively deny the official Labour candidacy to Ken Livingstone, an urban new left veteran who led the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until 1986, when it was shut down by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.
