This study examines teacher tenure and the effect it has on education, children, and the public in order to determine whether or not legislation is needed.

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<p> This thesis examines the change in housing tenure in the City of Toronto. The trends of tenure are described briefly between 1951 to 1971, for the city, as well as for the CMA. Specifically examined is the period from 1971 to 1988, in the City of Toronto. </p> <p> There is a continual decline in the rate of home ownership from 1951 to 1971, even though the absolute number of homeowners is increasing. This can be seen in the city, as well as the suburbs, and outlying areas. The overall decline in the rate may be due to the apartment boom of the 1960's, which can be associated with the baby boom from a few years earlier. Also suburbanization was occurring which certainly had an effect on home ownership. </p> <p> Similarly, ownership rates continued to decline between 1971 to 1986, although the absolute numbers were higher than tenants, and was steadily increasing. Gentrification and condominium construction certainly was associated with this absolute increase in home ownership. A closer look at the city reveals certain census tracts are increasing in home ownership at a higher rate than others. By looking at certain demographic characteristics, it is possible to see the changing social geography of these areas. </p> <p>The period 1986 to 1988 incurred tremendous condominium construction. The city during this time increased in ownership rates. Changing lifestyles and desires of the people living in the city caused a demand for condominiums. </p> <p> It is important to examine these trends and patterns of the city and the outlying areas to be kept informed of the changing social and economic geography of the city. </p> / Thesis / Candidate in Philosophy

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Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-189).

In surveying the literature on land tenure reform in Africa, what can readily be observed is that much of that body of work has comprised a markedly econometric and technical focus, to the neglect of evidently contiguous political factors. As a result, fundamental structural impediments to reform efforts have largely been ignored - a fact that may be reflected in the failure of many titling interventions. In light of this omission, the nature of political economy in both Ethiopia and Africa more generally is delineated in this thesis, in order to construct a more rounded conceptual framework through which the issue of land tenure can be deciphered. In so doing, the model of the ‘neopatrimonial’/anti-developmental state is utilised as a benchmark against which twentieth century Ethiopian regimes, and in particular the incumbent EPRDF Government, are assessed. Considerable evidence is uncovered to support the view that, despite its unique historical experience of independence, contemporary Ethiopia nevertheless fits with many key aspects of the neopatrimonial model – most notably in the Government’s pursuit of political survival and revenue to the neglect of long-term sustainable development. It is therefore argued that political imperatives have undermined the establishment of a progressive economic agenda in the country, and the ways in which this has affected land tenure are delineated. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the contemporary debate on tenure reform in Ethiopia has taken a form that is somewhat myopic and circuitous, possibly in an attempt to circumvent discussion of controversial political issues. It is argued that this apolitical stance has undermined not only the debate itself, but also the practical intervention strategies that have emerged from it, such as the recent land titling and administration project in Ethiopia. It is therefore concluded that the only means of escape from this theoretical and practical impasse is to reintegrate politics into the analysis.

Oorspr. proefschrift Bayreuth, 2007. / Bibliogr.: p. 251-268. Met lit. opg.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-328).

A historical review of land tenure systems implemented in the Herschel district, Eastern Cape, South Africa and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each system in conjunction with international experience of land tenure provide guidelines as to what elements could be incorporated in the formulation of a new integrated land tenure system. These guidelines together with the information obtained from a questionnaire survey amongst the Herschel population provide the government of South Africa with a broad outline of an integrated land tenure system that could serve to link the former homelands to the land tenure system that currently operates in the rest of the country thereby removing one of the obstacles to rural development and land redistribution.

The present enquiry is a study of specific social possibilities in a culture-contact situation, namely the encounter of the Dene and Inuit of the Northwest Territories with Canadian society; and shows how by analyzing the basic content of two traditions in contact with one another, the possibilities for mutual adjustment of one tradition to the other, or the lack of such possibilities, may be logically derived from that content. The study also uses the perspective of cultural ecology to devise and demonstrate a way in which any system of land-tenure may be compared with any other, without the concepts of one system being imposed upon the other. The particular problem of the enquiry is to compare the traditional ideas of land and land-tenure among Dene and Inuit with the ideas of land and land-tenure in Canadian law; and to discover a way whereby the Dene and Inuit may use the concepts of the dominant Canadian system to preserve their own traditional ways of holding land. The analysis begins by outlining the cultural ecosystem of each people, their basic modes of subsistence, the resources used, the kinds of technical operations applied to those resources, the work organization, and relevant parts of social organization and world-view. Then, in order, the idea of land which the people appear to be following, the kinds of land-rights and principles of land-holding recognized by the" people, and the kinds of "persons" who may hold land-rights, are described. The systems are then compared in order to discover the possibilities for "reconciliation". The enquiry concludes that the basic premises and characters of the Dene and Inuit systems of land-tenure are fundamentally irreconcilable with those of Canadian real property law, but that the Dene and Inuit systems can be encapsulated within the dominant Canadian system by means of the Community Land-Holding Corporation (CLHC). The CLHC as proposed in this enquiry would allow the members of a community to hold land among themselves according to their own rules, while the corporation holds the land of the whole community against outsiders according to the principles of Canadian law. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate