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  title info:
    title: Municipal Accountability in the American Age of Reform
    sub title: The Gadfly at the Counter, 1870-1920
  name:
    name part: Ress, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 128 p. online resource.
  abstract: At the foundations of our modern conception of open government are a handful of disgruntled citizens in the Progressive Era who demanded accountability from their local officials, were rebuffed, and then brought their cases to court. Drawing on newspaper accounts, angry letters to editors, local histories, and court records, David Ress uncovers a number of miniature yet critical moments in the history of government accountability, tracing its decline as the gap between citizens and officials widened with the idea of the community as corporation and citizens as consumers. Together, these moments tell the story of how a nation thought about democracy and the place of the individual in an increasingly complex society, with important lessons for policy makers, journalists, and activists today.
  table of contents: 1. The Micropolitics of Accountability -- 2. The Street Commissioner's Records -- 3. The Right to Know Emerges -- 4. Community as Corporation -- 5. The Home Rule Idea -- 6. The Limits of the Vote -- 7. The Expert Fights Back -- 8. Conclusion.
  note: by David Ress.
  subject:
    topic: United States-History
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns-History
  subject:
    topic: United States-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Urban
  subject:
    topic: US History
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Urban History
  subject:
    topic: US Politics
  subject:
    topic: Urban Studies/Sociology
  classification: E171-183.9
  classification: 973
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319682587
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68258-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 171009
    record change date: 20191029011958.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-68258-7