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.)

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

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