Aaron Moore

  • Associate Professor
    Political Science
    University of Winnipeg

    Adjunct Professor
    Department of City Planning
    University of Manitoba

Education

  • PhD, University of Western Ontario
  • MA, University of Western Ontario
  • HBA, University of Toronto

Affiliations

  • Fellow, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the School of Cities, University of Toronto.

Research

Aaron Moore is an expert on urban politics and public policy. His interests include: the politics and governance of urban development and planning, municipal governance and finance, the governance and finance of infrastructure, municipal elections, urban public administration, and municipal economic development policy. 

His current research project (with Malcolm Bird and Joe Lyons) is Investigating the Role of Municipal Economic Development Agencies in Canada: Operations, Oversight and Politics. With Malcom Bird and Joe Lyons. This project examines the organizational structure and operations of Canadian municipal economic development agencies (MEDAs), and their interactions with elected officials, city staff, the private sector, and citizenry. We intend to investigate what mechanisms, if any, are in place to ensure the oversight and accountability of these arms-length bodies, and the role different political actors play in shaping their policies and programing. They have become ubiquitous in large municipalities across Canada. However, academics have little knowledge of their organizational structure, the nature of their relationship to different stakeholders, nor many of the activities they engage in to fulfill their mandate. The research addresses this dearth of knowledge through both a general statistical canvas of Canadian municipalities, the development of a robust database on their operations, and in-depth case studies. The main goals for this project are to begin a discussion on MEDAs as part of the larger discussion of municipal economic development, to understand how they operate and interact with city staff and elected official, and to understand their relationship with other stakeholders.

Teaching

  • GPOL 7385 Local Public Administration (University of Winnipeg)
  • GPOL 7505 The Politics of Urban Development (University of Winnipeg)
  • Capstone/Thesis/Dissertation Advising

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