Detroit’s Hazen Pingree as Progressive Era Social Reform Mayor The earliest, the path-breaker, and, in some ways the most successful was Detroit’s Hazen Pingree. Pingree,
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Dayton: John Patterson, Socialists, and the Dayton Plan for City Manager
Dayton: John Patterson, Socialists, and the Dayton Plan Dayton did not wander into its adoption of the city manager form of government—it was led there
City Manager and the Reformed City: Born in the Progressive Age: Dayton as a Case Study
The City Manager and Reformed Cities Structural reform as government capacity-building was every bit as important as change in form of government. In fact, the
New York City Municipal Research Bureau in the Progressive Age
New York City: Apparently You Can’t Do it There! Nothing like a good case study to demonstrate the distinctions among Progressive policy systems while emphasizing
Municipal Research Bureaus
Municipal Research Bureaus Despite the consistent muscle and support lent by the chambers to structural reformers, the municipal research bureau personified the post 1900 approach
Structural Reformers in the Progressive Age and their Predecessors the Gilded Age Mugwumps
Structural Reformers Policy Systems and the Municipal Policy System Last to be discussed, but undoubtedly the most impactful, structural reformers during the Progressive Era set
Ron W. Coan 