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Year: 1913
Type: article
Abstract: T HAS been said that the spirit of Wisconsin is democracy and her method science.The same spirit and the same method prevailed among the little group of men who founded, in January, 1906, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research.These men had come to understand why successive reform administrations had failed to accomplish permanent results.In the words of R. Fulton Cutting, Mayor Low's administration "conclusively disclosed the insufficiency of reform by the ballot.The man without the machinery, animated by the noblest ambitions, is compelled to pursue them with an antiquated, rusty, unreliable mechanism that paralyzes progress."Mr. Cutting and his friends believed
Source: National Municipal Review
Author: Edward M. Sait
Language: English
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2053345833