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Experts and Politicians

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During the Progressive Era, reform candidates in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago challenged the established order–with strikingly different results: brief triumph in New York, sustained success in Cleveland, and utter failure in Chicago. Kenneth Finegold seeks to provide an explanation for this phenomenon by analyzing the beef up for reform in these cities, especially the role of an emerging class of urban policy professionals in each and every campaign. His work offers a new way of taking a look at urban reform opposition to machine politics.

Drawing on original research and quantitative analysis of electoral data, Finegold identifies three distinct patterns of beef up for reform candidates: traditional reformers drew beef up from native-stock elites; municipal populists found beef up among stock immigrant groups and segments of the working class; and progressive candidates won the backing of coalitions made up of traditional reform and municipal populist voters. The success of those reform efforts, Finegold shows, depended at the different ways through which experts were incorporated into city politics. This book demonstrates the importance of experience as a potential source of change in American politics and policy, and of each and every city’s electoral and administrative organizations as mediating institutions within a national system of urban political economies.

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