St Louis Politics

Author : Lana Stein
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1883982448

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St. Louis Politics by Lana Stein Pdf

There are two defining moments in St. Louis political history: the 1876 divorce of the city from its county and the 1914 charter adoption. The institutions created at these times produced a factional and fragmented city government, thoroughly grounded in machine politics. Stein examines major themes in urban politics over the last century: race, redevelopment, suburbanization, and leadership. St. Louis mayors must deal with the comptroller and the president of the board of aldermen plus twenty-eight aldermen elected from wards. State law says the city must also have eight county offices--offices that perform county functions for the city. Power is difficult to amass in this factional and fragmented universe. In St. Louis politics, consensus building and alliances can prove to be more important than election-night victory. St. Louis's political culture stems from the city's fragmented nature. Its philosophy is often: "you go along to get along" or "go home from the dance with the guy that brung you." Individual friendships are of great importance. Within this environment, class and racial cleavages also affect political decision making. Although St. Louis elected its first African American official in 1918, genuine political incorporation has been long in coming. Several decades ago, issues of class and race prevented St. Louis from adopting a new charter, with more streamlined public offices. Today, some St. Louisans cry out for home rule and governmental reform. Stein's work helps to demonstrate that institutions structure political behavior and outcomes. Changing institutions can make a difference, after political culture adapts to the new playing field.

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291506

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Mapping Decline by Colin Gordon Pdf

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Author : Clarence Lang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472050659

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Grassroots at the Gateway by Clarence Lang Pdf

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024811955

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The Sidewalks of St. Louis by George Lipsitz Pdf

In twenty-seven vignettes, Lipsitz explores the lives of oddballs and outcasts, immigrants and artists, those whose stories are often left out of traditional history books, but whose labor and imagination made St. Louis the city it is today.

Author : Lana Stein
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 081730519X

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Holding Bureaucrats Accountable by Lana Stein Pdf

Lana Stein looks at the taxing question of how to make bureaucracies responsible to elected officials Stein carefully scrutinizes St. Louis bureaucracy, distinguishing those agencies that are responsive to elected officials from those that are not. On the responsive side, for example, she cites the Traffic Division of the Department of Streets, which has erected about 1,000 four-way stop signs (compared to 34 in Kansas City) because the aldermen, responding to parents concerned about the safety of their street-crossing kids, demanded them. Similarly, she finds that building inspectors are responsive to aldermen's requests that individual buildings receive priority attention. To tenants worried about unsafe living conditions, that's an important and meaningful gesture

Author : Marshall Solomon Snow
Publisher : Johnson Reprint Corporation
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822023500283

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The City Government of Saint Louis by Marshall Solomon Snow Pdf

Original ed. issued as no. 4 of Municipal government, history, and politics, which forms the 5th series of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.

Author : Patrice Dutil
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774864053

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The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent by Patrice Dutil Pdf

Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in developing Canada’s global middle-power role in global affairs and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together well-established and new scholars to investigate the far-reaching influence of a politician whose astute policies and bold resolve moved Canada into the modern era.

Author : Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
ISBN : PSU:000012964291

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We Elect! by Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education Pdf

Author : Endsley Terrence Jones
Publisher : Palmerston & Reed
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : 0911921532

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Fragmented by Design by Endsley Terrence Jones Pdf

With almost 100 municipalities, the largest of which is also its own county, the structure of local government in St. Louis is indeed unique and is one of the most frequently discussed and debates topics in the region. Critics claim its duplicated services are a wasteful use of resources while supporter praise the convenience afforded by numerous small city governments. Written by local political science scholar, E. Terrence Jones, Fragmented By Design is the first book to fully chronicle the development of this structure and its implications for the St. Louis region.

Author : Charles Mitchell Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Campaign literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101072357559

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Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896 by Charles Mitchell Harvey Pdf

Author : Kenneth E. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
ISBN : UOM:39015085541269

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A Report on Politics in Saint Louis by Kenneth E. Gray Pdf

Author : Richard J. Hardy,Richard R. Dohm,David A. Leuthold
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826209904

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Missouri Government and Politics by Richard J. Hardy,Richard R. Dohm,David A. Leuthold Pdf

Since the publication of the first edition in 1985, Missouri Government and Politics has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding text. This revised and enlarged edition updates all of the chapters to reflect the changes that have occurred in the state's government during the last decade. Five new chapters have been added on topics previously unaddressed: economic development, energy, and the environment; state policy making in higher education; funding for education in the 1990s; the statewide elected executive officials; and the types of law in Missouri. The twenty-six chapters are grouped into four main categories: "The Context of Missouri Politics," "State Governmental Framework," "Policies and Policy Making in Missouri," and "Local Government and Politics in Missouri." Helpful additions to the basic text include more than fifty tables and figures, a glossary giving clear definitions of many governmental terms, and a bibliography on Missouri politics and government. The authors have become experts about Missouri by serving as teachers and researchers in Missouri colleges and universities, as candidates and workers in Missouri political campaigns, and as officeholders and public administrators in Missouri state government. Their collective experience in Missouri politics ensures that this new edition provides the most thorough and comprehensive overview of the structure and inner workings of Missouri's political system.

Author : David R. Mayhew
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400854523

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Placing Parties in American Politics by David R. Mayhew Pdf

This work on the structure of American parties combines the breadth that has been characteristic of voter analyses and the richness found in case studies of local party organizations. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Kenneth E. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025591319

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A Report on Politics in Saint Louis by Kenneth E. Gray Pdf

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541646063

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The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson Pdf

A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.