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Michael McConkey PH.D.

Links to Publications

Communications Theory

 

Acting Human; Communication Costs - Using Austrian economics to rethink communication theory as a form of praxeology.

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Coming soon: “Innis’ Smithian Blind Spot in his Staple Thesis”

 

Notes on Pumping up the Volume in Communication Studies,” Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 17, 1992

 

Voluntary Governance and Related Themes

 

"Voluntary Governance: A Roadmap" - A treatise on the history, foundations and strategy of stateless society

"A Libertarian Take on Vancouver’s Hockey Riot." Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, June, 17th, 2011 
 
 
"Markets, Poverty and the Snapshot Fallacy," Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, March, 17th, 2011 
 

"Voluntary Governance,” Libertarian Standard, Nov. 2010.

 

Whither the Municipality? Defining the Municipal in Confederal Municipalism,” Anarchist Studies, 2(1), Spring 1994.

 

Individuals, Communities and Federalism,” Telos, 93, Fall 1992

 

Beyond the Crises: Proposal for a New Confederation,” in Political Arrangements: Power and the City, (ed.) H. Lustiger-Thaler (Montreal: Black Rose, 1992).

 

Toronto’s Neighbourhood Association Movement, In Light of the Artificial Negativity Thesis,” in Culture and Social Change, (eds.) C. Leys and M. Mendell (Montreal: Black Rose, 1992.)

 

Hannah Arendt’s Vision of the European Council Phenomenon,” Dialectical Anthropology, 16(1), 1991

 

Organizational Governance

 

The Road to NGO: The Transformation of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1985-1995,” in Professionalism and Public Service: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan, (eds.) David Siegel and Ken Rasmussen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).

 

Dreaming of the Regulatory Village; Speaking of the Regulatory State (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada – New Directions Series #18, 2006)

 

Reinventing Service: Processes and Prospects for Municipal Alternative Service Delivery (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada and the Governance Network – New Directions Series #14, 2004)

 

Making Connections: Municipal Governance Priorities Today (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada – New Directions Series #13, 2004)

 

Thinking Regulation: A Roadmap to the Recent Periodical Literature, commissioned by the Privy Council Office, Federal Government of Canada, 2003.