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Zack Taylor
@bigcitypolitics.bsky.social

Professor of political science, public administration, and geography at the University of Western Ontario, Canada @westernuniversity.bsky.social; Editor-in-Chief, Territory, Politics, Governance journal @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social .. more

Political science 72%
Sociology 13%

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🔴2026 3MT Competition #CPSA_ACSP
Yr research. 3⃣ minutes. 1⃣ slide. 🚀
Think you can explain yr thesis in 180 seconds? We know you can!
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📣2026 Posters Competition #CPSA_ACSP26
The perfect chance to share yr findings w/colleagues!
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“City Politics in Canada is destined to be a classic. … this volume offers fresh, timely, and incisive observations about the evolution and future of the Canadian urban experiment that will undoubtedly inspire and provoke a new generation of urbanists.” - Jen Nelles, Oxford Brookes University

“The editors make a compelling case for placing municipalities at the centre of Canadian political science. Like the original, this book will quickly become indispensable to the field.” - Michael McGregor, Toronto Metropolitan University

“In City Politics in Canada, … contributors paint a vivid picture of how the central cities in one of the world’s most urban nations navigated a time of often dizzying change” - John Lorinc, author of The New City @johnlorinc.bsky.social

“City Politics in Canada tells a compelling story about Canadian urbanization. It is essential reading not just about Canadian city politics, but about cities in general.”
- Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University & editor, @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social @richardsondilworth.bsky.social

“This excellent and important book is a thorough, well researched, and fully modern look at the political science of Canada’s biggest core cities. … a long-overdue update to the original that matters well beyond those who study city governments – or run them.” - David Miller, former mayor of Toronto

In this overview of political development in seven large Canadian cities, we illuminate the drivers of continuity and change in urban politics from the early 1980s to the present. Inspired by the 1983 volume (same title) edited by Andrew Sancton and the late Warren Magnusson. We have nice blurbs:

Coming in December from @uoftpress.bsky.social: City Politics in Canada: 40 Years of Continuity and Change, co-edited with Martin Horak (@westernupolisci.bsky.social) and @jacklucas.bsky.social! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

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🎥Pulling back the curtain✨Meet the section heads who are crafting an unforgettable #CPSA_ACSP26 experience-They're ❤️beat of the conference!
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Congratulations, Twan!
From Guest Editors @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social @rkeil.bsky.social, we’re delighted to announce the publication of this collection of essays celebrating the late great Warren Magnusson on our website!

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Warren Magnusson Festschrift — Urban Affairs Review
www.urbanaffairsreview.com

Rachel Magnusson, Martin Horak, Ross Beveridge, Delacey Tedesco, bill carroll, Andrew Sancton, Theresa Enright, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Engin Isin, Diane Davis, Margaret Kohn

We hope this collection will help to reintroduce Warren's work to a new generation of scholars and activists who are interested in city life and its possibilities.

In addition to our introduction, the collection contains 17 contributions from people who knew Warren personally, collaborated with him, and have been influenced by his work.
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

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Great to hear @sarahayres.bsky.social welcome us to opening plenary of the @regstud.bsky.social 60th anniversary conference in Porto. Over 800 in attendance from 50+ countries.

Excited to be at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting in beautiful Porto!

This extends our OA paper "The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies" published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social last year. We found that the urban-rural divide is bigger in the US and the UK than it is in Canada. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5)

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Happy birthday @regstud.bsky.social - and here's to the next six decades!!

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🎂 Happy 60th Birthday to us!🎂
Over the past six decades, the RSA has grown to become the leading voice in regional studies, promoting collaboration among our members and the wider community across the world. Read more at www.regionalstudies.org/news/today-the-rsa-is-60/

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Today is the @regstud.bsky.social 60th 🎈birthday. It's a privilege to be Chair of the Association in its 60th year. The Association’s success is testament to the hard work of its staff team, members and dedicated volunteers. I salute you all 💙 👏.
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Today is the RSA’s 60 birthday! - RSA Main
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Regional Studies Association (RSA). On April 9th, 1965, the RSA was founded at a meeting held at the London School of Economics in the UK. Over the past six dec...
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Sad news at Queen’s Political Studies. My message to colleagues includes the link to the John Meisel lecture series including a short video about him: www.queensu.ca/politics/eve...