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• W2167481217 abstract "The increasingly questionable jurisdictions and expanding autonomy of local governments, induced by the forces of globalization, has inspired the use of municipal governments by urban social movements as vehicles of global change. A potential instance of this phenomenon is provided by the case of Vancouver, British Columbia between the years of 1999 to 2002. In 2001, after much community debate and media attention, the city's local Council adopted a drug policy of harm reduction that included the controversial plan of a safe injection site for intravenous drug users. This thesis uses political opportunity structure (POS) theory, to determine what role local movements played in the decision of the Vancouver City Council to support the implementation of North America's first safe injection site. POS theory studies how the level of openness of any given political system to the demands of outside groups, helps predict movement behaviour, movement success and government power. After careful analysis, the POS of Vancouver was determined to be closed to the influences of local movements. Although the system contained certain formal opportunities, the finer details of these opportunities rendered them less useful to groups seeking to influence government policy. With a closed POS and a local Council dominated by a right-wing business friendly political party, Vancouver's POS did not bode well for groups representing, in some cases, the drug using community of the downtown eastside. However by accessing the system from the inside via the city staff and obtaining the most important of potential elite allies; the city's Mayor, the pro-harm reduction movements of Vancouver were successful in influencing the policies of their municipal government. These elite allies in turn were able to harness the government power that accompanies a closed POS to accomplish the first of several steps towards the realisation of a safe injection site in the city's downtown eastside. Through its exploration of the case of Vancouver, this thesis demonstrates the usefulness of POS theory in understanding relationships between urban social movements and their local government as well as the benefits of a closed political opportunity structure." @default.
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• W2167481217 title "The benefits of a closed political opportunity structure : urban social movements, the Vancouver local government and the safe injection site decision" @default.
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