The Lost World of Municipal Government
- 1 June 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Political Science Review
- Vol. 51 (2) , 330-345
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1952195
Abstract
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, thenmunicipal governmentwould 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.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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