Replication Data for: Patterns of Urban Governance: A Sequence Analysis of Long-Term Institutional Change in Six Canadian Cities

To answer this question, scholars have often focused on one of three contexts: the city in which a set of policy institutions exists, the higher‐order government with legislative authority over those institutions, or the policy domain in which a policy task is administered. Few studies have compared the relative importance of these contexts for understanding the long‐term development of urban policy institutions.

In this article, I compare long‐term sequences of urban policy institutions, understood as the historical development of the formal institutional structures in which urban policies are developed and administered, across six Canadian cities, three provinces, and five policy domains. I use optimal matching methods to compare the sequences, and I find that patterns of resemblance among the sequences are most clearly sorted by policy domain, with shared province playing an important secondary role.