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Urban bosses, machines, and progressive reformers

Title
Urban bosses, machines, and progressive reformers. Edited and with an introd. by Bruce M. Stave.
ISBN
0669737836
Published
Lexington, Mass., Heath [1971, c1972]
Physical Description
xviii, 158 p. 21 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Setting the stereotype, by J. Bryce.
Why the ward boss rules, by J. Addams.
The shame of the cities, by L. Steffens.
Bosses preserve the Nation, by G. W. Plunkitt.
The latent functions of the machine, by R. K. Merton.
The study of corruption, by E. L. McKitrick.
The manifest functions of the machine, by M. A. Calvert.
Boss Tweed's New York, by S. Mandelbaum.
The Urban politician as entrepreneur, by J. A. Tarr.
The periphery versus the center, by R. C. Wade.
Boss Cox's Cincinnati, by Z. L. Miller.
Boss Murphy and progressive reform, by J. J. Huthmacher.
The reformer as machine politician, by M. G. Holli.
The settlement worker versus the ward boss, by A. F. Davis.
Business elite and the centralization of decision-making, by S. P. Hays.
Businessmen and the city commission and manager movements, by J. Weinstein.
Socialism in Schenectady, by L. H. Pink.
Victor L. Berger, Socialist boss of Milwaukee, by D. A. Shannon.
The Pittsburgh Renaissance
an example of the reverse welfare state, by R. Lubove.
Bibliography (p. 155-158)
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