Urban bosses, machines, and progressive reformers.
By: Edited and with an introd. by Bruce M. Stave.
Series: Problems in American civilization
Publisher: Heath
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Municipal government -- United States; Political corruption -- United States; Progressivism (United States politics)
Table of contents: title: Setting the stereotype, by J. Bryce.; title: Why the ward boss rules, by J. Addams.; title: The shame of the cities, by L. Steffens.; title: Bosses preserve the Nation, by G. W. Plunkitt.; title: The latent functions of the machine, by R. K. Merton.; title: The study of corruption, by E. L. McKitrick.; title: The manifest functions of the machine, by M. A. Calvert.; title: Boss Tweed's New York, by S. Mandelbaum.; title: The Urban politician as entrepreneur, by J. A. Tarr.; title: The periphery versus the center, by R. C. Wade.; title: Boss Cox's Cincinnati, by Z. L. Miller.; title: Boss Murphy and progressive reform, by J. J. Huthmacher.; title: The reformer as machine politician, by M. G. Holli.; title: The settlement worker versus the ward boss, by A. F. Davis.; title: Business elite and the centralization of decision-making, by S. P. Hays.; title: Businessmen and the city commission and manager movements, by J. Weinstein.; title: Socialism in Schenectady, by L. H. Pink.; title: Victor L. Berger, Socialist boss of Milwaukee, by D. A. Shannon.; title: The Pittsburgh Renaissance; title: an example of the reverse welfare state, by R. Lubove.; title: Bibliography (p. 155-158)