Council Government Versus Mayor Government (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Durand, Edward Dana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1334451575 ISBN 13 : 9781334451577

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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American municipal government is that toward increasing the power and responsibility of the mayor. There is scarcely an important city which has not modified its charter in this direction within the past quarter-century. The practically exclusive control which the city council formerly exercised over the executive administration has been by gradual steps almost completely taken away ;while even what have always been considered essentially legislative functions, especially those pertaining to the finances, have been in no small measure transferred to the city executive. At the same time, there has been a rapid centralization of the executive power itself. Heads of departments were formerly for the most part placed in office, or at least retained there, regardless of the will of the incumbent mayor; but by the most modern charters they are nearly all made appointive and summarily removable by him. In New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and several other leading cities, the right of confirming appointments, the lasfremaining means by which the council could exercise some direct control over the personnel of the executive, has now been abolished, while in other municipalities it is retained only as a concession to tradition and conservative influences. This great change in municipal organization, moreover, has not been, like so many others, brought about simply by thoughtless, partisan or corrupt legislative tinkering. While in many cases such influences have doubtless shared in the movement, it has yet met the approval though in differing degrees and according to different lines of reasoning of very many of those who have disinterestedly sought better muni426 .
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334451575
• ISBN 13: 9781334451577
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 67
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