Author: William Howe TolmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Municipal Reform Movements in the United States
Author: William Howe TolmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Municipal Reform Movements in the United States
Author: William Howe TolmanPublisher: New York ; Toronto : Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
How the Other Half Lives
Author: Jacob RiisPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 145850042X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Age of Reform
Author: Richard HofstadterPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307809641
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent historian comes a landmark in American political thought that examines the passion for progress and reform during 1890 to 1940. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
Urban Reform and Its Consequences
Author: Susan WelchPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226893006
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Throughout this century, reformers have fought to eliminate party control of city politics. As a result, the majority of American cities today elect council members in at-large and nonpartisan elections. This result of the turn-of-the-century Progressive movement, which worked for election rules that eliminated the power of the urban machine and the working class on which it was based, is today still a subject of lively debate. For example, in the mid-1980s, regular Democrats in Chicago sought to institute a nonpartisan mayoral election. Supporters thought that reform would make the electoral process more democratic, while opponents charged that it was meant to dilute the voting powers of blacks. Clearly, the effect of urban reform remains an important issue for scholars and politicians alike. Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe clarify a portion of the debate by investigating how election structures affect candidates and the nature of representation. They examine the different effects of district versus at-large elections and of partisan versus nonpartisan elections. Who gets elected? Are representatives' socioeconomic status and party affiliation related to election form? Are election structures related to how those who are elected approach their jobs? Do they see themselves as representatives concerned with the good of the city as a whole? Urban Reform and Its Consequences reports an unprecedented wealth of data drawn from a sample of nearly 1,000 council members and communities with populations between 50,000 and 1 million across 42 states. The sample includes communities that use a variety of election procedures. This study is therefore the most comprehensive and accurate to date. Welch and Bledsoe conclude that nonpartisan and at-large elections do give city councils a more middle- and upper-middle-class character and have changed the way representatives view their jobs. Reform measures have not, however, produced councils that are significantly more conservative or more prone to conflict. Overall, the authors conclude that partisan and district elections are more likely to represent the whole community and to make the council more accountable to the electorate.
The Gilded Age
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Municipal Reform Movements in the United States
Author: William Howe TolmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Public Markets
Author: Helen TangiresPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731675
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The accompanying CD-ROM contains high-quality downloadable TIFF files of all the illustrations."--Jaquette.
American History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Paul S. BoyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era
Author: Noralee FrankelPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice Kessler-Harris, Barbara Sicherman, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn to illuminate the lives and labor of American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1920s. Revealing the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class, the authors explore women's accomplishments in changing welfare and labor legislation; early twentieth century feminism and women's suffrage; women in industry and the work force; the relationship between family and community in early twentieth-century America; and the ways in which African American, immigrant, and working-class women contributed to progressive reform. This challenging collection not only displays the dramatic transformations women of all classes experienced, but also helps construct a new scaffolding for progressivism in general.