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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Corruption and Reform: Definitions and Historical Trends | |
Corruption and Reform: Introduction | p. 3 |
The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American History | p. 23 |
Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and Growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930 | p. 63 |
Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works | p. 95 |
Consequences of Corruption | |
Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression | p. 125 |
Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities | p. 153 |
The Road to Reform | |
The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered | p. 187 |
Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform | p. 231 |
Regime Change and Corruption: A History of Public Utility Regulation | p. 259 |
Reform and Regulation | |
The Irony of Reform: Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930? | p. 285 |
The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 | p. 319 |
Politics, Relief, and Reform: Roosevelt's Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation during the New Deal | p. 343 |
Contributors | p. 373 |
Author Index | p. 375 |
Subject Index | p. 381 |
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