Bureaucracy and Economic Reform: The Experience of California, 1899-1911

Bureaucracy and Economic Reform: The Experience of California, 1899-1911

The civil service in Amer has played a most important role in the accomplishment of reform at various stages in the history of the US. Esp during the Progressive Era, while the glare of newspaper & magazine publicity focused on the activities of pol'al reformers, bureaucrats at all levels o...

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Published in:The Western political quarterly 1960-09, Vol.13 (3), p.678-691
Main Author: Nash, Gerald D.
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Annual reports
Banking regulation
Bureaucracy
Civil Service
Earthquake insurance
Economic reform
Employee insurance
Insurance companies
Insurance regulation
Legislatures
Life insurance
Policy Reform
Public administration
Social Reform
United States of America
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Summary:The civil service in Amer has played a most important role in the accomplishment of reform at various stages in the history of the US. Esp during the Progressive Era, while the glare of newspaper & magazine publicity focused on the activities of pol'al reformers, bureaucrats at all levels of gov exerted a powerful, if quiet & unobtrusive influence in the renovation of an antiquated admin've structure. California during the yrs 1899-1911 provides a good case study of this experience for here, as elsewhere, civil servants had accomplished a whole range of reform measures in the decade before 1911, when the Progressive governor, Hiram Johnson, assumed office & made the claim to initiating much needed change. AA- IPSA.
ISSN:0043-4078
2325-8675