The Government of Municipalities / / Dorman B. Eaton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Eaton, Dorman B.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1899]; ©1899
• Year of Publication: 1899
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231894227; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/eato93542
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dorman B. Eaton.

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