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The Government of Municipalities /
Looks at how and why municipal governments have been created and the problems they faced in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[1899]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Introduction: The Government of Municipalities
- II. The nature of the evils in American municipal government, and separate elections and Home Rule as remedies
- III. The relation of political parties to Home Rule and municipal administration
- IV. Municipal government by party as illustrated by the Tammany Democracy
- V. Municipal government by party as illustrated by the Tammany Democracy (continued)
- VI. Municipal government by party as illustrated by the Tammany Democracy. (concluded)
- VII. Several vicious conditions and practices considered and remedies for them proposed. The Merit - or Civil Service Reform - System as a remedy
- VIII. The same subject concluded. Evil effects of too short terms of office and too many elections. How to insure a salutary publicity of official action
- IX. Concerning Free Nominations and Free Voting; minority representation
- X. Concerning the functions and relations of city councils and mayors
- XI. Concerning the constitution and membership of a city council
- XII. The methods and practical results of municipal government in Great Britain
- XIII. The methods and practical results of municipal government in Continental Europe
- XIV. Concerning the election of mayors and their powers and functions
- XV. Concerning school administration and sanitary administration
- XVI. Concerning police administration
- XVII. Concerning judicial administration in municipalities
- XVIII. The charter of the Greater New York as an admonition in city extension and a lesson in city-party government
- Appendix
- Index