Experts in City Government (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Experts in City Government That thing has never been tried out. because if the legal government organized by the people is feeble then there always exists by its side an expert illegal government that does the actual work of governing." Expert city government, government administered by trained men, is the much needed agency to transform the city into an active, positive, and constructive instrument of public welfare. It will do this because it will use the best tool in all the world for its purpose. President Lowell has put the case well: "Democracy more than any other form of government needs the very best instruments which can be used. What should we say of our country if it refused to use for public work modern machinery and inventions? Democracy needs the best machinery that can be found, the best tools that can be discovered; and the best tool that the world has ever yet produced is a highly trained human brain." Though this book is tremendously interested in making democracy efficient, it is not primarily interested in efficiency. It is interested only in seeing that the city accomplishes the social purposes which brought it into being and makes its continuance necessary. This is the end. This is the mistress. Efficiency is only the handmaiden. It is this view which explains the emphasis throughout the book on the importance of public opinion and on a direct rather than a vicarious citizen interest in support of government and particularly of expert government. Expert city government must entrench itself in the understanding of the citizenship. It is this view which explains Mr. Collier´s paper on "Citizen Interest in Government, the Community Center," in this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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