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Richardson Dilworth

@richardsondilworth.bsky.social

Professor at Drexel U and managing editor of Urban Affairs Review. Author of Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy and Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022.

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MRmirya.bsky.socialOct 17, 2024 8:44pm

I'm excited to present "Governing the Gilded Age City: A New Dataset on Local Institution Building During the Machine and Progressive Eras", coauthored with @cwolbrecht.bsky.social and Lakshmi Iyer

How did urban political leaders respond to the tumult of the late 1800s and early 1900s? Dramatic population growth, immigration, economic instability, inequality, and industrialization created new policy demands that pushed local governments to grow in capacity. One of the tools of the expansion of power, capacity, and scope of local government was the creation and staffing of local appointed boards and commissions. In this paper, we introduce a new dataset of political institution building which documents appointed boards and commissions across four major cities: Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, and Los Angeles, CA from the late 1800s to the 1930s. We supplement these data with measures of local organizational life and political machine versus progressive control of local politics. Using these data, we trace the effectiveness of local political movements, how policy agendas fluctuated over time, and the long-term consequences of temporary political disputes.

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 7:04pm

Was it an MDPI journal?

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialSep 21, 2024 9:21pm

I’d be curious to see your list of the classics.

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialMay 29, 2024 3:55am

Possibly because

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialDec 8, 2023 4:07pm

Mollenkopf essay: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialDec 8, 2023 4:06pm

Conant's article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialDec 1, 2023 3:15pm

They also have some sort of ranking system.

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialDec 1, 2023 3:08pm

As you should know, being on the editorial board and all, UAR is starting up its book reviews section so list us in that “places to send for review” section. Also, I hear that presses are generally unaware of, and like to be informed by authors that, the NYT reviews books.

RDrichardsondilworth.bsky.socialNov 30, 2023 9:11pm

Shadow puppetry an underutilized teaching device.

Richardson Dilworth

@richardsondilworth.bsky.social

Professor at Drexel U and managing editor of Urban Affairs Review. Author of Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy and Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022.

314 followers893 following13 posts