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Articles by John L. Cotton
Opinion: Don't blame public servants when it's politicians who call the shots
Advertisement 1 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Re. “Public service in Alberta must be modernized,” Opinion, Sept. 8 Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content As students, teachers and practitioners of public policy and public administration for over 30 years, we find Ms. Kennedy-Glans reading of the problems in Alberta’s public service misleading and even offensive.
John Cotton: Sharing services is helping to keep the Council Tax frozen in South Oxfordshire
Cllr John Cotton is the Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council. Our ability to freeze council tax again this year comes down to two things: comparatively healthy reserves (our uncommitted reserves exceed £50m) and a strong desire not to spend those too quickly. This year’s freeze is part of a longer-term plan to lower council tax in our district. Since 2011, a series of cuts and freezes have brought our Band D tax down by nearly ten per cent – more in real terms.
Opinion: Densification not a clash between generations
Guest columnist John Cotton writes that densification, such as the development of in-fill housing, should be thoughtful and strategic . Shaughn Butts / Edmonton Journal In David Staples’s Aug. 12th column, he outlined his support for the views of ex-Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan on the issue of densification. Sullivan argues that older wealthy citizens in urban areas are attempting to protect their financial and economic interests by blocking densification efforts.
The “name game”: affective and hiring reactions to first names
The paper seeks to examine how the uniqueness and ethnicity of first names influence affective reactions to those names and their potential for hire. The paper seeks to examine how the uniqueness and ethnicity of first names influence affective reactions to those names and their potential for hire. In study 1, respondents evaluated 48 names in terms of uniqueness and likeability, allowing us to select names viewed consistently as Common, Russian, African‐American, and Unusual.
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