Author: National Municipal League
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publications of the National Municipal League
Author: National Municipal League
Publisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publications of the National Municipal League
Author: National Municipal League
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Reforming the City
Author: Ariane Liazos
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231549377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Most American cities are now administered by appointed city managers and governed by councils chosen in nonpartisan, at-large elections. In the early twentieth century, many urban reformers claimed these structures would make city government more responsive to the popular will. But on the whole, the effects of these reforms have been to make citizens less likely to vote in local elections and local governments less representative of their constituents. How and why did this happen? Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reformers hoped to make cities simultaneously more efficient and more democratic, broadening the scope of what local government should do for residents while also reconsidering how citizens should participate in their governance. However, they increasingly focused on efficiency, appealing to business groups and compromising to avoid controversial and divisive topics, including the voting rights of African Americans and women. Liazos weaves together wide-ranging nationwide analysis with in-depth case studies. She offers nuanced accounts of reform in five cities; details the activities of the National Municipal League, made up of prominent national reformers and political scientists; and analyzes quantitative data on changes in the structures of government in over three hundred cities. Reforming the City is an important study for American history and political development, with powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231549377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Most American cities are now administered by appointed city managers and governed by councils chosen in nonpartisan, at-large elections. In the early twentieth century, many urban reformers claimed these structures would make city government more responsive to the popular will. But on the whole, the effects of these reforms have been to make citizens less likely to vote in local elections and local governments less representative of their constituents. How and why did this happen? Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reformers hoped to make cities simultaneously more efficient and more democratic, broadening the scope of what local government should do for residents while also reconsidering how citizens should participate in their governance. However, they increasingly focused on efficiency, appealing to business groups and compromising to avoid controversial and divisive topics, including the voting rights of African Americans and women. Liazos weaves together wide-ranging nationwide analysis with in-depth case studies. She offers nuanced accounts of reform in five cities; details the activities of the National Municipal League, made up of prominent national reformers and political scientists; and analyzes quantitative data on changes in the structures of government in over three hundred cities. Reforming the City is an important study for American history and political development, with powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy.
National Municipal Review
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Publications of Societies
Author: Richard Rogers Bowker
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publications of Societies; a Provisional List of the Publications of American Scientific, Literary, and Other Societies from Their Organization
Author: Richard Rogers Bowker
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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A Municipal Program
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Publication
Author: Hawaii. Territorial Planning Board
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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NBS Special Publication
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Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Miscellaneous Publication
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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