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Book History and Analysis of the Commission and City Manager Plans of Municipal Government in the United States  1918

Download or read book History and Analysis of the Commission and City Manager Plans of Municipal Government in the United States 1918 written by Tso-Shuen Chang and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Progressive Cities

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  • Author : Bradley Robert Rice
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-07-03
  • ISBN : 0292766416
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Progressive Cities written by Bradley Robert Rice and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the commission government movement is often treated by historians as an element of the reform surge of the Progressive Era, this is the first full-scale study of the origins, spread, and decline of the commission idea. Commission government originated in Galveston, Texas, where business leaders conceived the plan as a temporary measure to speed recovery from the great hurricane of 1900. Other cities in Texas and across the nation soon followed; by 1920, about 500 municipalities had adopted the plan in which elected representatives serve as heads of city departments and, collectively, as a policy-making body. Beginning with Galveston and Houston and Des Moines, Iowa, Bradley Robert Rice presents detailed case studies of the earliest commission cities and shows how the plan was developed and modified to suit each community’s needs. He goes on to chronicle the adoption of the commission plan by other cities across the country that strove for “businesslike efficiency” as a reaction against corruption and machine politics in urban government. Most commission charters included a wide-ranging package of municipal reforms, such as the short ballot, at-large representation, nonpartisanship, civil service, and direct legislation. Yet Rice shows that the commission plan generally offered little in the way of social reform to accompany its reorganization of municipal government. Applying a model of innovation diffusion, the author analyzes how and why the new form of city government spread across Progressive Era America. He also thoroughly explores the relationship between the commission plan and other Progressive Era reforms and reports on the reasons for its decline from both a social and a practical perspective. Progressive Cities is described by Professor Bruce M. Stave, editor of the Journal of Urban History, as “a sound piece of work which should make a useful and worthwhile contribution to the existing scholarship on urban reform and should appeal to an audience which cuts across disciplines: history, political science, urban studies and urban planning.”

Book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin

Download or read book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Short Ballot Bulletin

Download or read book The Short Ballot Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service  a Cooperative Clearing House of Public Affairs Information

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service a Cooperative Clearing House of Public Affairs Information written by Public Affairs Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service written by Public Affairs Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Municipal Review

Download or read book National Municipal Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Municipality

Download or read book The Municipality written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Jersey Municipalities

Download or read book New Jersey Municipalities written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Public Administration

Download or read book A Bibliography of Public Administration written by Institute of Public Administration (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic World

Download or read book Economic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Questions of the Hour

Download or read book Questions of the Hour written by Justina Leavitt Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Municipal Government and Administration

Download or read book Municipal Government and Administration written by William Bennett Munro and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: