01113pab a2200169 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Bridges, Amy Writing the rules to win the game: the middle class regime of municipal reformers 1999 p.691-706 May Every student of city politics knows the class theory of city government - that middle-class voters supported municipal reform and working-class voters supported machine politics. Although historical narratives support this theory, systematic evidence has been elusive. Historians and political scientists alike have recognized very strong regional differences in styles of city government but lacked an explanation. The authors argue that the class theory, historical narratives, and regional differences may be reconciled. Presence of immigrants and turnout account both for adoption or rejection of reform and for the regional pattern of those decisions. - Reproduced Local government Kronick, Richard Urban Affairs Review 41179 41179 41179 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 34, Issue no: 5 AR41555 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR