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The County: The "Dark Continent" of American Politics

Chapter 94: Transcriber’s Notes
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The author examines county government as an overlooked layer of American democracy, surveying its origins, legal status, and functions while documenting sanitary, fiscal, and administrative failures. He analyzes how tradition, fragmentation of elected offices, local political machines, and inadequate state oversight produce inefficiency, corruption, and uneven services in urban and rural counties. Case studies and statutory comparisons illustrate problems in jails, almshouses, roads, public health, and fiscal management. Proposed remedies include state guidance, constitutional and charter home rule, consolidation, county managers, and scientific administration aimed at reconstructing counties for more accountable, efficient government and outlining possibilities for future reform.


Transcriber’s Notes

In a few cases, obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.

Page 27: “Massachussetts had always had it” changed to “Massachusetts had always had it”

Page 142: “cases to impofe standards” changed to “cases to impose standards”

Page 192: “comparative efficiency of employes” changed to “comparative efficiency of employees”

Page 236: “comparative efficiency of employes” changed to “comparative efficiency of employees”

Page 238: “No officer or employe of the county,” changed to “No officer or employee of the county,”

Page 245: “No attorney, agent, stockholder or employe of any firm” changed to “No attorney, agent, stockholder or employee of any firm”

Page 253: “other powers, duties and responsibilties” changed to “other powers, duties and responsibilities”

In Appendix C, page 248, a footnote has been created to contain the explanation text.

In the Index, the spelling of Polk County was corrected.