Charter Reform in Chicago

by Maureen A. Flanagan

A fresh look at the question of why charter reform failed in Chicago when it succeeded in other large cities across the country.

Political scientists have tried to understand the failure of Chicago's charter reform movement through simplistic paradigms developed in studies of other cities. Flanagan, however, argues that Chicago, like all cities, has its own political culture, the result of forces and circumstances unique to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080931391X
• ISBN13: 9780809313914
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"