Reforming the City: The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890-1930

by Ariane Liazos

Most American cities are now administered by appointed city managers and governed by councils chosen in nonpartisan, at-large elections. In the early twentieth century, many urban reformers claimed these structures would make city government more responsive to the popular will. But on the whole, the effects of these reforms have been to make citizens less likely to vote in local elections and local governments less representative of their constituents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231191383
• ISBN13: 9780231191388
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"