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The Lost World of Municipal Government

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  • Herson, Lawrence J. R.

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Like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, the study of American city government is faced with desiccation upon a sea of plenty. While the literature of municipal government continues to grow, fed by bureaus of government research and the teaching concerns of political scientists, there is very little in this literature that is of substance sufficient to rise above the level of specialized reporting and into the general stream of political science. Indeed, if the pages of this Review be taken as an index of the research concerns of our discipline, then municipal government would seem to be a stagnated area of political science, for not one article on this subject has appeared in this journal for over six years.

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  • Herson, Lawrence J. R., 1957. "The Lost World of Municipal Government," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(2), pages 330-345, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:51:y:1957:i:02:p:330-345_07
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