Word: reformations
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Romney had keyed the success or failure of his administration to Michigan's fiscal situation, which was a frightful mess. Working with his Republican legislative leadership, he drafted a fiscal reform program that included a 2% personal income tax, a 31% corporate profits tax, and a 6% income tax on financial institutions. It seemed a sound program for a state long tormented by a fiscal nightmare. But a special session of the legislature in Lansing last week buried Romney's proposals-and the interment was conducted no less by dissident Republicans than by Democrats. As a result, Michigan...
City Politics examines the structure of urban politics: the electoral system, the distribution of authority, the centralization of influence; and analyzes the forces and groups involved: reform, non-partisanship, businessmen, the Negroes. The authors see a steady trend toward middle-class values in politics--honesty, "good government," concern for the entire community as opposed to specific neighborhoods. As these middle-class values gain acceptance, the old political machines crumble and are superceded by stronger centralized governments. Although administrative authority becomes concentrated, effective political power decreases, because the centralizing influence of the machine has been destroyed...
Every chapter contains perceptive insights, although some subjects--particularly the city's role in the federal system, reform, and master planning--are not treated in the depth they deserve. This fault reflects the enormity of the authors' subject rather than a lack of understanding on their part...
...chapters are somewhat out-of-date. The chapter on reform is essentially a synopsis of Wilson's The Amateur Democrat and fails consider what has happened to New York's reform movement in the last eighteen months. The chapter on the Negroes is also slightly dated, but to ask that a book published early this fall contain references to the events of last summer would be unfair...
Laws which require the awarding of all contracts on an open basis by public authorities, and which permit public inspection of the authorities' business affairs, will be essential parts of the reform program he will send to the next session of the Massachusetts legislature...