The American mayor: Elections and institutions

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 667-677

  Peterson, Paul E ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/pa/53.4.667     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. 1 R. Murphy, 'Whither the Mayors: A Note on Mayoral Careers', Journal of Politics, February 1980.
2. 2 Ibid., p. 281. The statement applies to 1940-76.
3. 3 W. Brands, TR: The Last Romantic, Basic Books, 1997, pp. 267-8.
4. 4 H.M.G. Holli, The American Mayor: The Best and the Worst, Pennsylvania State Press, 1999, ch. 1.
5. 5 Ibid., p. 152. Holli includes as upwardly mobile mayors all those who rose to appointed as well as elected posts. I have subtracted those of the former that I could identify, but it is likely that 37 still overestimates the number of mayors elected governor or senator.
6. 6 Murphy, op. cit., pp. 277-90.
7. 7 P.E. Peterson, The Price of Federalism, Brookings, 1995, p. 166.
8. 8 Ibid., p. 168.
9. 9 Cf. H. Mitgang, Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age, Free Press, 2000.
10. 10 E. Fuchs, Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago UP, 1992, p. 221.
11. 11 Peterson, op. cit., p. 54.
12. 12 A. Smith, 'The Capitalist: Investing in a Candidate', New York Times, 15.9.96.
13. 13 Peterson, op. cit., p. 166.
14. 14 Ibid., p. 172.
15. 15 Ibid., p. 170.
16. 16 Cf. H.S. Jaffe and T. Sherwood, Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington DC, Simon & Schuster, 1994.