Liazos Reforming the City

The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890–1930
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54937-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liazos, Ariane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Urban Reform, Coalitions, and American Political Development
1. The Emergence of the Movement for “Good City Government”: Municipal Reform Associations, c. 1880–1900
2. “Saved by the Scholar”: Political Science, the Municipal Program, and the National Municipal League, c. 1890–1900
3. The Municipal Program and Early Campaigns for Charter Reform, c. 1895–1910
4. “The Franchise Problem”: Home Rule, Charter Reform, and the Provision of Public Services, c. 1900–1915
5. The Commission Plan, c. 1900–1915
6. “Whether Democracy and Efficiency Are Inherently Irreconcilable”: Professionalization and Expertise in Municipal Reform, c. 1905–1920
7. “The Transition to Government by Experts”: The Origins and Spread of Commission/City Manager Government, 1912–1925
8. The Legacy of the Movement for Urban Reform: State Building and Popular Control
Epilogue: The End of the Coalitions
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Publication Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liazos Ariane:
Ariane Liazos (PhD Harvard) is a lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. This would be her first book. Her work has appeared in Journal of Economics and Sociology, Journal of African American Studies, Social Science History, and elsewhere.Ariane Liazos is a research advisor in the social sciences and lecturer at the Harvard Extension School. With Theda Skocpol and Marshall Ganz, she is coauthor of What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2006).