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Urban Government

Urban Government. Reforming the Machines. Overview. Motive for Reform Reform Environment Reform Proposals. Motive for Reform. Class Immigration Corruption Democratic Control. Motive for Reform: Class. Upper Class resentment at power of lower classes

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Urban Government

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  1. Urban Government Reforming the Machines

  2. Overview • Motive for Reform • Reform Environment • Reform Proposals

  3. Motive for Reform • Class • Immigration • Corruption • Democratic Control

  4. Motive for Reform: Class • Upper Class resentment at power of lower classes • Element of the population able to control government

  5. Motive for Reform: Immigration • Nativist objections to influx of new immigrant populations • Particularly those from Catholic, southern, and eastern European countries • Demographic distribution of the immigrant populations

  6. Motive for Reform: Corruption • Machines in most urban areas target of “Progressive” reform • Confluence of political and corporate corruption undermined the “public” good

  7. Motive for Reform: Democratic Control • Too much democracy (immigrant and working class vote) • Too little democracy (candidate selection and electoral process controlled by party bosses)

  8. “A city is a corporation...as a city it has nothing whatever to do with general political interests.... The questions in a city are not political questions.. .The work of a city being the creation and control of the city property.

  9. “it should logically be managed as a piece of property by those who have created it, who have a title to it, or a real substantial part in it... [and not by] a crod of illiterate peasants, freshly raked in from the Irish bogs, or Bohemian mines, or Italian robber nests.” -- Andrew D. White (1890)

  10. Reform Environment • Scandals (corporate and political) • Popular press picking up stories of corruption • Mass consumption of the scandals

  11. Reform Proposals • Reduce Election fraud • Voter registration requirements • Australian (secret) ballot • Nonpartisan elections

  12. Reform Proposals • Move from “ward” to “at large” elections

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