Experts and Politicians (eBook)

Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago

Kenneth Finegold (Autor)

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2020
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22163-2 (ISBN)

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During the Progressive Era, reform candidates in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago challenged the status quo--with strikingly different results: brief triumph in New York, sustained success in Cleveland, and utter failure in Chicago. Kenneth Finegold seeks to explain this phenomenon by analyzing the support for reform in these cities, especially the role of an emerging class of urban policy professionals in each campaign. His work offers a new way of looking at urban reform opposition to machine politics. Drawing on original research and quantitative analysis of electoral data, Finegold identifies three distinct patterns of support for reform candidates: traditional reformers drew support from native-stock elites; municipal populists found support among stock immigrant groups and segments of the working class; and progressive candidates won the backing of coalitions made up of traditional reform and municipal populist voters. The success of these reform efforts, Finegold shows, depended on the different ways in which experts were incorporated into city politics. This book demonstrates the significance of expertise as a potential source of change in American politics and policy, and of each city's electoral and administrative organizations as mediating institutions within a national system of urban political economies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 1 fig. 49 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism • Aggregate approach to reform • Amendment • Appointee • At-large • ballot • Board of education • Borough president • Bryan, Williams Jennings • Capitalism • Cermak, Anton • Charles Francis Murphy • Chicago Federation of Labor • Citizens (Spanish political party) • City Manager • City-manager government • Cleavage (politics) • comptroller • Cooley Farms colony • Council–manager government • Daley, Richard J. • defection • Dennis Kucinich • Ecological regression • Election • Emerson, Haven • Employment • estimation • ethnic group • Fernando Wood • Frederic C. Howe • General Election • George B. McClellan • Georgism • Germans • Government • Haider, Donald • Heritage Foundation • Ideology • incumbent • Independence League • Industrial social scientists • Institution • Irish Catholic • Italians • Jane Addams • Jews • John Peter Altgeld • John Purroy Mitchel • Julius Rosenwald • Kaufman, Herbert • laborer • Larson, Magali Sarfatti • Legislation • Legislature • Lexow Committee • local government • Lower East Side • Martin Shefter • Mayor • McKinley, William • Merit system • middle class • Morgan, J. P. • Municipal Ownership League • Nationality • newspaper • New York Central Railroad • Nomination • Pamphlet • Patriotism • Patronage • Poles • Policy • Policy planning networks • Political Campaign • Political corruption • Political Economy • political machine • Political Party • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Populism • professionalization • Progressive Era • progressivism • Public Policy • Rand Corporation • Referendum • Reform Movement • Regime • Republican faction (Spanish Civil War) • Republican Party (United States) • salary • Seminar • Seth Low • Shefter, Martin • Social Class • Social hygiene experts • Social scientists • State legislature (United States) • state-owned enterprise • Steffens, Lincoln • Suburbanization • Supporter • tammany hall • Tax • Tom L. Johnson • Trade Union • Unemployment • Upper Class • Urban liberalism • Voinovich, George • Voting • Voting Behavior • Washington, Harold • Wealth • welfare • William Jay Gaynor • william jennings bryan • William Randolph Hearst • Woodrow Wilson • Working Class • Yellowitz, Irwin • Yerkes, Charles • zoning
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22163-4 / 0691221634
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22163-2 / 9780691221632