Experts and Politicians

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

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1995-02-13
Mått197 x 254 x undefined mm
Vikt539 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePrinceton Studies in American Politics
Antal sidor272
FörlagPrinceton University Press
ISBN9780691037349

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AcknowledgmentsPt. IRethinking Reform1Ch. 1Machine Politics and Reform Politics3Ch. 2Incorporating Experts15Pt. IINew York: From Traditional Reform to Progressivism33Ch. 3Seth Low and Traditional Reform35Ch. 4Hearst, McClellan, and Gaynor: Municipal Populism and the Tammany Response45Ch. 5John Purroy Mitchel and the Politics of Municipal Research54Pt. IIICleveland: From Municipal Populism to Progressivism69Ch. 6McKissonism and the "Muny"73Ch. 7Tom Johnson: Municipal Populism in Power82Ch. 8Newton Baker's Progressive Coalition101Pt. IVChicago: The Failure of Progressivism119Ch. 9Carter Harrison versus Reform123Ch. 10Edward Dunne: Municipal Populism and Party Factionalism138Ch. 11Busse, Merriam, and the Bureau of Public Efficiency151Pt. VConclusions169Ch. 12Progressivism, Electoral Change, and Public Policy171Appendix185Notes189Bibliography229Index253

"For those who believe that we can only understand urban politics today by knowing yesterday's outcomes, Finegold's careful blend of historical understanding and empirical analysis is an important contribution to the literature."--Journal of Politics "For those who believe that we can only understand urban politics today by knowing yesterday's outcomes, Finegold's careful blend of historical understanding and empirical analysis is an important contribution to the literature."--Journal of Politics "A provocative, well-researched, and well-written book on a topic of enduring interest."--Choice