The Government of Municipalities

✍ Scribed by Dorman B. Eaton

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 540
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Looks at how and why municipal governments have been created and the problems they faced in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

✦ Table of Contents

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