Municipal Accountability in the American Age of Reform The Gadfly at the Counter, 1870-1920 /

• Main Author: Ress, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Social history.; Cities and towns-History.; United States-Politics and government.; Sociology, Urban.; US History.; Social History.; Urban History.; US Politics.; Urban Studies/Sociology.

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 his...

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.