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Author : Tso-Shuen Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : NYPL:33433075942577
Author : Tso-Shuen Chang
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0265200717
Excerpt from History and Analysis of the Commission and City-Manager Plans of Municipal Government in the United States The commission form of city government is not a definite and fixed type of municipal organization. With the increase In the number of cities operating under this so-called commission form of government, and with the increase in the number of devia tions and departures from the original Galveston plan found in various cities and communities which are claiming to have a commission plan of government, it is rather important to have clearly in mind at the very outset, what is and what is not com mission government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Harold Alfred Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015058597819
Author : Ariane Liazos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549370
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.
Author : H George Frederickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315290157
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction2. Theories of Institutional Dynamics3. Political and Administrative Cities4. The Evolution of Political Cities5. The Evolution of Administrative Cities6. The Evolution of the Model City Charter7. The Discovery of Adapted Cities8. Probing the Complexities of Adapted Cities9. The Conciliated City10. Conclusions
Author : Herman Gerlach James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Municipal government by city manager
ISBN : IND:30000131014247
Author : Anonim
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : 076563886X
This work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands.
Author : Tso-Shuen Chang
Publisher : Iowa City : The University
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : UOM:39015031624078
Author : Richard J. Stillman (II)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Municipal government by city manager
ISBN : UOM:39015005000362
Author : National Municipal League. Committee on Municipal Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Municipal government by city manager
ISBN : MINN:31951002086966P
Author : Russell Rowe Dynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : UCLA:31158002372919
The study focuses on organized activities within communities experiencing disaster. It is initiated by a description of the nature of disaster involvement on the part of various community organizations. A discussion follows of the different meanings of the term 'disaster' and of the social implications created by differential characteristics of disaster agents. It is suggested that the primary disruption of the social structure is revealed in unplanned changes in interorganizational relationships. Four types of organized behavior are isolated, derived from a cross-classification of the nature of the disaster tasks and the post-impact structure. Using these four types, problems of mobilization and recruitment are discussed as well as the specific operational problems these groups experience functioning under disaster conditions. A final chapter deals with the implications of disaster research in dealing with the organizational consequences of a nuclear catastrophe.
Author : Charles Austin Beard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Municipal government by city manager
ISBN : UOM:35112104218864
Author : Frank Mann Stewart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520347915
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.
Author : William Vernon Holloway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Local government
ISBN : UOM:39015022689593
Author : Bradley Robert Rice
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780292766419
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.”