The Government of Municipalities /

The Government of Municipalities / / 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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Eaton, Dorman B.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1899]
©1899
Year of Publication:1899
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (530 p.)
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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

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