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In this study, 300 American suburbs are classified according to the three major forms of government: commission (considered to be most decentralized), mayor-council, and council-manager (most centralized). Various social and economic characteristics are then examined. The commission city is the least likely, and the council-manager city is the most likely, to be newer and to have a young, mobile, white, middleclass population that is growing rapidly. It is suggested that the socioeconomic character of a city may partly determine its political structure.' Leo F. Schnore is professor of sociology and Robert R. Alford is assistant professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin.
Schnore et al. (Sat,) studied this question.