First Draft Only Why are States and Cities Different from Each Other? That is “The Question” which this history seeks to answer. This book begins at
Category: Early Growth of Northern Big Cities
4.6 the Philadelphia Municipal Corporation: Assessors, Separately Elected Functions: Laying the Foundation for Warner’s Privatism
Penn gave little particular thought to Pennsylvania’s governance–other than to copy the English sub-state political institutions/structures on paper into his Frame of Governance. After all
4.7 Assembly Bypasses Proprietor Sub-State Policy System: the Pennsylvania County and Township: Highways, Bridges and Ferries
Let’s start out with some contemporary Pennsylvania statistics on sub-state governments, generously provided to us by the the 2017 Census of Governments. Pennsylvania presently enjoys
4.8 Provincial Politics: How Quaker Culture Facilitated Legislative Quaker Party versus Proprietary Branch War; Formation of a Sort of, Kind Of Two Branches Competitive Policy System with Quaker Party as Political Party-Machine
Provincial-colonial initial political structures and evolving relationships among levels of government are profoundly affected and shaped by the infusion of political culture into politics, policy-making,
4.81 the Provincial Policy-System through 1725: General Assembly and the Proprietorship
The starting point in my Pennsylvania model is the uniqueness of Penn’s Sole Proprietary Corporation and its effects on the development of Pennsylvania’s first policy
4.83 General Assembly Asserts Itself: Taxes, Finances-Credit: Two Party Policy System During the 1720’s
A history that concentrates upon economic development is necessarily drawn to select case studies and examples that relate to that policy area. The argument advanced
Ron W. Coan 