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100			_aBridges, Amy
245			_aWriting the rules to win the game: the middle class regime of municipal reformers
260			_c1999
300			_ap.691-706
362			_aMay
520			_aEvery 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
650			_aLocal government
700			_aKronick, Richard
773			_aUrban Affairs Review
909			_a41179
999			_c41179 _d41179