Urban Reform and Its Consequences: A Study in Representation

by Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe

Throughout this century, reformers have fought to eliminate party control of city politics. As a result, the majority of American cities today elect council members in at-large and nonpartisan elections. This result of the turn-of-the-century Progressive movement, which worked for election rules that eliminated the power of the urban machine and the working class on which it was based, is today still a subject of lively debate. For example, in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226893006
• ISBN13: 9780226893006
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"