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

Author/Creator:

Finegold, Kenneth, 1957-

Publication/Creation:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Experts and Politicians Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago / Kenneth Finegold

Series Titles:

Princeton studies in American politics

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Progressivism (United States politics)
Populism--United States
Elections--Ohio--Cleveland
Elections--Illinois--Chicago
Elections--New York (State)--New York
Cleveland (Ohio)--Politics and government
Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--To 1950
New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951

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Table of Contents:

pt. I. Rethinking Reform. Ch. 1. Machine Politics and Reform Politics. Ch. 2. Incorporating Experts -- pt. II. New York: From Traditional Reform to Progressivism. Ch. 3. Seth Low and Traditional Reform. Ch. 4. Hearst, McClellan, and Gaynor: Municipal Populism and the Tammany Response. Ch. 5. John Purroy Mitchel and the Politics of Municipal Research -- pt. III. Cleveland: From Municipal Populism to Progressivism. Ch. 6. McKissonism and the "Muny" Ch. 7. Tom Johnson: Municipal Populism in Power. Ch. 8. Newton Baker's Progressive Coalition -- pt. IV. Chicago: The Failure of Progressivism. Ch. 9. Carter Harrison versus Reform. Ch. 10. Edward Dunne: Municipal Populism and Party Factionalism. Ch. 11. Busse, Merriam, and the Bureau of Public Efficiency -- pt. V. Conclusions. Ch. 12. Progressivism, Electoral Change, and Public Policy.

Summary:

Electoral and administrative organizations as mediating institutions within a national system of urban political economies.
Success of these reform effort, Finegold shows, depended on the different ways in which public policy experts were incorporated into city politics. The relationship of experts and politicians in the Progressive Era also helps to clarify the patterns of city politics in the three cities since this period. More generally, this book demonstrates the significance of expertise as a potential source of change in American politics and policy, and the importance of each city's.
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 immigrant stock 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.
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.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (x, 264 pages)

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937242217602486

OCLC Number:

1090988242
1243312438

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.1515/9780691221632