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Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwestby Amy Bridges
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:George Washington Plunkitt once dismissed municipal reformers as "morning glories" who "looked lovely in the mornin' and withered up in a short time, while the regular machines went on flourishin' forever, like fine old oaks." Although this remark rings true for the Northeast in the days when Tammany Hall ruled New York City, municipal reformers have governed the big cities of the Southwest for most of this century. Obscuring this fact and ignoring the Southwest in general, familiar accounts of municipal reform have focused on small towns and suburbs as the only locations where reformers achieved their goals. Amy Bridges redresses this neglect by tracing the reform politics and government in large Southwestern cities since 1901, thereby giving a more complete account of municipal reform. In the Southwest, municipal reformers got everything they wanted: nonpartisanship, city managers, citywide elections, civil service, and a government with few social service responsibilities. Successful at limiting popular participation and at carefully targeting amenities to their core supporters, incumbents in big cities counted on re-election as confidently as could any machine politician. Urban leaders were aggressive in their pursuit of urban growth and very popular with the people who did vote, but the political community remained small. Not until the 1970s did growth and exclusionary practices combine to uproot the vigorous "morning glories" of the Southwest. Synopsis:"Morning Glories is a tour de force, a book that is certain to change the literature on urban politics. Amy Bridges takes on an important topic, advances a powerful argument, and backs it up with original archival research. This superb work will be the first to comprehensively examine reform in the urban Southwest. With the publication of Morning Glories, the standard account of American urban reform will need to be substantially revised."--Dennis R. Judd, University of Missouri at Saint Louis Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments One Southwestern Cities and the Course of Reform Two Small but Ambitious Three Setting Forth Cheerfully Four Sure Defeat Five The Little Movement Becomes Respectable Six The Statesman Joins It Seven And Takes the Credit Eight The Politician and the Crowd Nine Morning Glories Appendix: Notes on the Choice of Cases Bibliography Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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