Politics and Government: A Collection of Essays

by Shumsky,Neil L.

• ISBN13: 9780815321880
• ISBN10: 0815321880
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
Urban Politics in Jacksonian St. Louis: Traditional Values in Change and Conflict	p. 1
The Politics of Charter Revision in New York City, 1845-1847	p. 15
Who Has Power in the Democratic Capitalistic Community? Reflections on Antebellum New York City	p. 43
Community Leadership: Baltimore during the First and Second Party Systems	p. 70
Black Political Representation in Southern Cities: Election Systems and Other Causal Variables	p. 85
Matthew Livingston Davis and the Political Legacy of Aaron Burr	p. 107
Rising Democratic Spirits: Immigrants, Temperance, and Tammany Hall, 1854-1860	p. 134
The Gray Wolf: Tom Dennison of Omaha	p. 155
The Last of the Good Old Days: Politics in Baltimore, 1920-1950	p. 183
On Bosses, Reformers, and Urban Growth: Some Suggestions for a Political Typology of American Cities	p. 189
Politics and Reform: The Dimensions of Baltimore Progressivism	p. 199
Municipal Reform and the Changing Pattern of Urban Party Politics	p. 207
The Reform of Municipal Government in New York City: From Seth Low to John Purroy Mitchel	p. 231
The Galveston Plan of City Government by Commission: The Birth of a Progressive Idea	p. 253
Reformers, Factionalists and Kansas City's 1925 City Manager Charter	p. 298
The Evolution of Municipal Accounting in the United States: 1900-1935	p. 330
Suburban Growth and Municipal Annexation in Baltimore, 1745-1918	p. 349
The State and the City	p. 370
City Versus State: The Struggle for Legal Ascendancy	p. 385
The City and the Sword: San Francisco and the Rise of the Metropolitan-Military Complex, 1919-1941	p. 400
The Origin of the Alliance between the New Deal and the Chicago Machine	p. 425
Changing Patterns of Policy: The Decision Making Environment of Urban Transportation	p. 447
Financing Home Ownership: The Federal Role in Neighborhood Decline	p. 481
Acknowledgments	p. 505
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