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Journal articles on the topic "London Municipal Reform League"

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Brennan, John F. "The Radical Right, the National Municipal League Smear File, and the Controversy over Metropolitan Government in the United States during the Postwar Years." Public Voices 13, no. 1 (November 18, 2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.49.

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This paper reports on activities undertaken by the National Municipal League (NML) and the Public Administration Service (PAS) during the 1950’s and 1960’s to counter libelous and slanderous actions taken by grass roots activists in opposition to efforts to reform metropolitan governance across the United States. I utilize records from the NML archives—and give special attention to their “Smear File”—to chronicle and analyze the key events and actors. Specifically, I focus on the ideas of opponents of metropolitan government reform from the South and West in the United States including Jo Hindman, Dan Smoot, and Don Bell. These individuals used right-wing idea distribution vehicles including magazines, small-town newspapers, and subscription newsletters to disseminate their arguments and rally support for their cause. I also analyze the actions of their foes at the NML and PAS—namely those of Alfred Willoughby, Executive Director of the National Municipal League; H.G. Pope, President of the Public Administration Service;Richard S. Childs, former President of the National Municipal League; and Karl Detzer,Roving Editor for Reader’s Digest and contributing writer for the National Municipal Review, the academic and professional journal of the National Municipal League. This study adds to the literature explaining the lack of metropolitan governmental frameworks at the local level in the United States, which has been built on the work of Charles Tiebout, Vincent Ostrom, Robert Bish, Ronald Oakerson, and Roger Parks. Although this analysis is idiographic and historical in perspective, it does not necessarily challenge the core empirical results of the nomothetic modeling of these scholars.

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Smith, T. B. "In Defense of Privilege: The City of London and the Challenge of Municipal Reform, 1875-1890." Journal of Social History 27, no. 1 (September 1, 1993): 59–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsh/27.1.59.

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Murphy, Michael Francis. "The Free School Triumph in London, Canada West, 1840 to 1852." Ontario History 110, no. 2 (November 1, 2018): 210–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1053513ar.

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Grant-aided common schools in Canada West went free between 1850 and 1870. This article attempts to answer why by studying London between 1840 and 1852. It explains how citizens, the power structure, and schools intersected prior to 1850 to marginalize the community’s common schools and most youngsters and to privilege others. It will demonstrate how the centre’s changing character and the Reform impulse (writ both large and small, but reflected in this colony by new laws in 1849-50 covering not only education but also municipal, elections, and assessment matters), transformed education arrangements, bringing almost all school-age children immediately into its now ascendant free, comprehensive common schools.

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Crozier, Ivan. ""All the World's a Stage": Dora Russell, Norman Haire, and the 1929 London World League for Sexual Reform Congress." Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, no. 1 (2003): 16–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2003.0056.

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Crozier, Ivan. "Becoming a Sexologist: Norman Haire, the 1929 London World League for Sexual Reform Congress, and Organizing Medical Knowledge about Sex in Interwar England." History of Science 39, no. 3 (September 2001): 299–329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/007327530103900303.

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Kestner, Joseph A. "The Concept of Working-Class Education in Industrial Investigative Reports of the Eighteen-Thirties." Browning Institute Studies 16 (1988): 57–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0092472500002091.

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Steven Marcus has observed, “On any account, the 1830s are a decade of critical importance” (15). The period is prominent in the industrial era for several far-reaching if not entirely satisfactory pieces of legislation, including the Reform Bill of 1832, Althorp's Factory Act of 1833, and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 established the principle of popular election in all corporate boroughs with the exception of London. The decade is marked, as well, by the quantification of social problems, which is represented by the statistical societies founded in Manchester in 1833 and in London in 1834 and by the Journal of the Statistical Society in 1838. These manifestations of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy reflected the shift from cottage to factory production that marked the Industrial Revolution.

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Jayawickrama, Dilum. "Death at the Hands of the State. By Professor David Wilson. The Howard League for Penal Reform, London, 2005, 143 pp. Paperback, ISBN 090368378 - 4." Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 19, no. 4 (October 2009): 279–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbm.734.

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Barrie, David G. "Anglicization and Autonomy: Scottish Policing, Governance and the State, 1833 to 1885." Law and History Review 30, no. 2 (April 26, 2012): 449–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248011000939.

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As with other pillars of the Scottish criminal justice system, the distinctiveness of the Scottish police model from its English counterpart has been widely acknowledged. Its historical development, institutional structure, and level of community support have been portrayed as unique in the United Kingdom. Although rarely heralded as a symbol of national identity in the same way as the Church of Scotland or the legal system, the Scottish police's distinctive customs, traits, and practices have been held up in some studies as a badge of national pride. Often this is for no significant reason other than the fact that police reform in Scotland predated similar developments in England. Municipal police administration has also been depicted as an important symbol of the self-governing nature of Scottish civil society, conferring upon local authorities a wide range of autonomous powers and strengthening their bargaining position with central government in Westminster in London.

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Weaver, Michael. "The New Science of Policing: Crime and the Birmingham Police Force, 1839–1842." Albion 26, no. 2 (1994): 289–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4052309.

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After years of tinkering with the notion of police reform, Parliament in 1829 passed the Metropolis Police Improvement Act, which established the famous Metropolitan Police Force, England's first body of uniformed, fulltime “professional” police. Bodies of the “new police” were allowed to spread outside of London by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. These provincial forces answered to local authorities, a pattern disrupted in 1839 when Parliament passed three bills establishing centrally-controlled police forces for Birmingham, Bolton, and Manchester. These Acts were emergency measures, with a three-year duration, designed to hurriedly provide forces of new police in towns that seemed threatened by Chartist unrest. In the case of Birmingham a combination of aggressive Chartist activity—which produced two major riots in the summer of 1839—and fierce political in-fighting between the town's elite factions convinced Parliament that the new force, to be commanded by ex-army officer Francis Burgess, should answer to the Home Office in London rather than to Birmingham's radical/liberal (and therefore perhaps untrustworthy) Town Council.All of the forces of new police that appeared from 1829 to 1839 faced common problems, ranging from recruitment and retention difficulties to disciplinary troubles, but perhaps the most serious challenge confronting these new forces was the hostility of many of the citizens the forces were intended to protect. Opponents of the new police forces voiced their concerns that the forces amounted to a second standing army, that the new police could be used for domestic spying, and that they were too expensive to justify any benefits they might possibly provide. While all of the new forces experienced this type of opposition, the environment in Birmingham was particularly hostile for the force created by Act of Parliament in 1839.

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Acey, Charisma S. "Book Review: Alam, M. (Ed.). (2010). Municipal Infrastructure Financing: Innovative Practices From Developing Countries. Commonwealth Secretariat Local Government Reform Series Number 2. London, England: Commonwealth Secretariat. 142 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-84929-003-6." Public Works Management & Policy 15, no. 2 (October 2010): 137–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1087724x10376775.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "London Municipal Reform League"

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Kulshrestha, Geeta Mohan. "Municipal solid waste management in Delhi and London : a comparison of institutional capacity for environmental policy reform." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2144/.

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This thesis investigates the explanatory value of Martin Janicke's model of capacity for environmental policy reform by empirically applying it to the context of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in the cities of Delhi and London, mainly during the period 1990 and 2003. The research included a critical review of the existing literature, extensive interviews and secondary sources. The analysis also draws on policy networks theory to analyse interactions between the range of state and non-state actors influencing the environmental policy process. The investigation suggests that, while it is a powerful explanatory tool when applied to MSW policy reform in Delhi and London, Janicke's model underestimates the predominant role played by institutional factors in determining capacity for environmental policy reform. This predominance is established by an examination of how institutional conditions, characterised by particular types of policy networks, mediate the relationship between pressure for environmental protection and effective policy reform. Interactions reflecting the entrenched interests of dominant actors in the policy network influence the alternatives considered for MSW policy reform in both cases in ways that constrains the drive for more environmental sustainability. The thesis concludes that effective policy reform is unlikely to be achieved without institutional change aimed at increasing institutional capacity. The thesis, in its comparative institutional analysis of MSW management in Delhi and London, contributes to the scholarship in the field of capacity building as well as wider international efforts towards sustainable development. It is of immediate relevance to both academic and policy debates.

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Book chapters on the topic "London Municipal Reform League"

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Spinney, Robert G. "Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890–1915." In City of Big Shoulders, 132–49. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0008.

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This chapter speaks of Judge Murray F. Tuley and the Municipal Voters' League who sought to save the city from the Chicago City Council and their conspirators, the elected city aldermen. It analyzes how the Chicago City Council allegedly degraded the city by means of what Chicagoans called boodle, which was the selling of municipal favors or privileges by politicians for personal profit. It also describes Tuley's sense of a noble crusade of righteousness that was typical of Progressive Era reformers, who sought to purge their cities of corruption, dishonesty, and bad government. The chapter highlights the Progressive movement that swept America, manifesting itself in the reform of both national and local politics between 1890 and 1915. It explores the Progressive Era reforms that accompanied America's transition from a nation of farmers and artisans to a nation characterized by immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.

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Simon, Barbara Levy. "Berlin’s municipal socialism: a transatlantic muse for Mary Simkhovitch and New York City." In The Settlement House Movement Revisited, 35–50. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447354239.003.0003.

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This chapter follows the work of Mary Simkhovitch, a key figure in settlement houses in New York, but also a major proponent of the notion of municipalisation, a concept developed in Germany that advocated the transferal to city ownership of previously private, corporate assets. Simkhovitch was part of a group of Americans who were strongly influenced by ideas regarding social welfare that developed in Germany at the end of the 19^th Century. She sought to implement these ideas in New York by establishing the Greenwich House settlement and then serving as its headworker for 44 years. During this period, she engaged in efforts to regulate industries through the National Consumers League, spearheaded tenement reform and the creation of public housing in New York, and played a key role in efforts to expand green spaces and recreational opportunities for children, adolescents, and adults in the city.

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b, a. "Intellectual Women, Social Science, and Political Power: Municipal Feminism and Reform at the London School of Economics, 1895 to 1960." In Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970, 1–2. Taylor & Francis, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203795651-12.

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Scaff, Lawrence A. "Capitalism." In Max Weber in America. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691147796.003.0004.

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This chapter examines how Max Weber's time in Chicago shaped his views on capitalism. Chicago in 1904 was the world's fifth largest urban center (behind London, New York, Paris, and Berlin). The city was a new industrial and commercial magnet and transportation hub, with a rapidly increasing working class and major labor, public health, and social issues. The chapter first considers Weber's impressions of Chicago before discussing his thoughts on political reform and the consequences of it in the face of corruption, rule by bosses, and the big city political machines. It then describes the Webers' visit to Hull House and their interest in the Women's Trade Union League, a chapter of the association founded by Jane Addams. It also analyzes Weber's opinion regarding the conditions of the working class in the stockyards, along with his notion of character as social capital.

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"Local Authorities:- Boroughs, Before and After The Conquest: Burghal Customs in Domesday: Chapters: Incorporation-By Implication or Prescription and by Express Grant: Boroughs After 1688: Political Abuses Arising Under Chapters: Municipal Corporations in 1835: Municipal Reform Act: Early Examples of Local Government: Building Assize in London: Fires: Act for Good Order in London, A.D. 1285: Taverns: Watch and Ward: Cleansing of Streets: Villeins Taking Refuge in Towns." In A History of Private Bill Legislation, 218–73. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203770399-8.

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