Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. I. Introduction: The Government of Municipalities 1
5. II. The nature of the evils in American municipal government, and separate elections and Home Rule as remedies 19
6. III. The relation of political parties to Home Rule and municipal administration 57
7. IV. Municipal government by party as illustrated by the Tammany Democracy 89
8. V. Municipal government by party as illustrated by the Tammany Democracy (continued) 111
9. VI. Municipal government by party as illustrated by the Tammany Democracy. (concluded) 135
10. VII. Several vicious conditions and practices considered and remedies for them proposed. The Merit – or Civil Service Reform – System as a remedy 158
11. 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 189
12. IX. Concerning Free Nominations and Free Voting; minority representation 209
13. X. Concerning the functions and relations of city councils and mayors 246
14. XI. Concerning the constitution and membership of a city council 276
15. XII. The methods and practical results of municipal government in Great Britain 309
16. XIII. The methods and practical results of municipal government in Continental Europe 337
17. XIV. Concerning the election of mayors and their powers and functions 368
18. XV. Concerning school administration and sanitary administration 398
19. XVI. Concerning police administration 415
20. XVII. Concerning judicial administration in municipalities 436
21. XVIII. The charter of the Greater New York as an admonition in city extension and a lesson in city-party government 461
22. Appendix 499
23. Index 513