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Reforming the City - The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890-1930 (Paperback)
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Reforming the City - The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890-1930 (Paperback)
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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.
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