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city clubs  

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  • Men seeking to reform city governments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States founded organizations they called city clubs. These clubs were typical Progressive-era reform organizations that were seeking to diminish the influence of party politics in municipal governments. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; City Club]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/city_clubs

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