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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Proceedings of the conference for good city government and the annual meeting of the national municipal league
Author: Proceedings of the ... Conference for Good City Government and the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League
Author: National Municipal LeaguePublisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Proceedings of The... National Conference for Good City Government, and of The... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League
Author: National Municipal LeaguePublisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Proceedings of the ... Conference for Good City Government and of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League Held ...
Author: National Municipal LeaguePublisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Proceedings of the ... National Conference for Good City Government, and of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League ...
Author: National Municipal LeaguePublisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Proceedings of the ... National Conference for Good City Government and of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League ... 1896 - 1910
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Reforming the City
Author: Ariane LiazosPublisher: 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.
A Half Century of Municipal Reform
Author: Frank Mann StewartPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520347919
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: The Fiscal Case Against Statehood
Author: Stephanie D. MoussalliPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739166999
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In The Fiscal Case against Statehood, Stephanie D. Moussalli investigates the territorial residents' fears that statehood will be expensive and examines the frontier development of government accounting practices. Moussalli analyzes financial reports from New Mexico and Arizona from the 1880s to the 1920s and finds a significant increase in the cost of government as well as an improvement in the governments' accountability for their use of the public purse.