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St Louis Politics
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Author : Lana Stein
language : en
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
Release Date : 2002
St Louis Politics written by Lana Stein and has been published by Missouri History Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
There are two defining moments in St. Louis political history: the 1876 divorce of the city from its county and the 1914 charter adoption. The institutions created at these times produced a factional and fragmented city government, thoroughly grounded in machine politics. Stein examines major themes in urban politics over the last century: race, redevelopment, suburbanization, and leadership. St. Louis mayors must deal with the comptroller and the president of the board of aldermen plus twenty-eight aldermen elected from wards. State law says the city must also have eight county offices--offices that perform county functions for the city. Power is difficult to amass in this factional and fragmented universe. In St. Louis politics, consensus building and alliances can prove to be more important than election-night victory. St. Louis's political culture stems from the city's fragmented nature. Its philosophy is often: "you go along to get along" or "go home from the dance with the guy that brung you." Individual friendships are of great importance. Within this environment, class and racial cleavages also affect political decision making. Although St. Louis elected its first African American official in 1918, genuine political incorporation has been long in coming. Several decades ago, issues of class and race prevented St. Louis from adopting a new charter, with more streamlined public offices. Today, some St. Louisans cry out for home rule and governmental reform. Stein's work helps to demonstrate that institutions structure political behavior and outcomes. Changing institutions can make a difference, after political culture adapts to the new playing field.
The City Government Of Saint Louis
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Author : Marshall Solomon Snow
language : en
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
Release Date : 1887
The City Government Of Saint Louis written by Marshall Solomon Snow and has been published by Johnson Reprint Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Political Science categories.
Original ed. issued as no. 4 of Municipal government, history, and politics, which forms the 5th series of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.
The Politics Of Urban Planning
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Author : Dennis R. Judd
language : en
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1973
The Politics Of Urban Planning written by Dennis R. Judd and has been published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Political Science categories.
We Elect
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Author : Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
We Elect written by Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Saint Louis (Mo.) categories.
A Report On Politics In Saint Louis
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Author : Kenneth E. Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
A Report On Politics In Saint Louis written by Kenneth E. Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Municipal government categories.
Holding Bureaucrats Accountable
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Author : Lana Stein
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1991
Holding Bureaucrats Accountable written by Lana Stein and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
Lana Stein looks at the taxing question of how to make bureaucracies responsible to elected officials Stein carefully scrutinizes St. Louis bureaucracy, distinguishing those agencies that are responsive to elected officials from those that are not. On the responsive side, for example, she cites the Traffic Division of the Department of Streets, which has erected about 1,000 four-way stop signs (compared to 34 in Kansas City) because the aldermen, responding to parents concerned about the safety of their street-crossing kids, demanded them. Similarly, she finds that building inspectors are responsive to aldermen's requests that individual buildings receive priority attention. To tenants worried about unsafe living conditions, that's an important and meaningful gesture
Fragmented By Design
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Author : Endsley Terrence Jones
language : en
Publisher: Palmerston & Reed
Release Date : 2000-06-01
Fragmented By Design written by Endsley Terrence Jones and has been published by Palmerston & Reed this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with Municipal government categories.
With almost 100 municipalities, the largest of which is also its own county, the structure of local government in St. Louis is indeed unique and is one of the most frequently discussed and debates topics in the region. Critics claim its duplicated services are a wasteful use of resources while supporter praise the convenience afforded by numerous small city governments. Written by local political science scholar, E. Terrence Jones, Fragmented By Design is the first book to fully chronicle the development of this structure and its implications for the St. Louis region.
Republican National Convention St Louis June 16th To 18th 1896
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Author : Charles Mitchell Harvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Republican National Convention St Louis June 16th To 18th 1896 written by Charles Mitchell Harvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Campaign literature categories.
Mapping Decline
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Author : Colin Gordon
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-09-12
Mapping Decline written by Colin Gordon and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-12 with History categories.
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
The Sidewalks Of St Louis
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Author : George Lipsitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Sidewalks Of St Louis written by George Lipsitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
In twenty-seven vignettes, Lipsitz explores the lives of oddballs and outcasts, immigrants and artists, those whose stories are often left out of traditional history books, but whose labor and imagination made St. Louis the city it is today.