Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 1997 The Politics of Chicago City Council Elections, 1979-1995 Timothy B. Krebs Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Krebs, Timothy B., "The Politics of Chicago City Council Elections, 1979-1995" (1997). Dissertations. 3689. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/3689 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1997 Timothy B. Krebs LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO THE POLITICS OF CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS, 1979-1995 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE BY TIMOTHY BERRY KREBS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JANUARY 1997 Copyright by Timothy Berry Krebs, 1997 All rights reserved. ii ACDIOWLBDGMENTS I would like to thank many people for the advice and assistance that they have given me over the past two years while I have been engaged in this project. I am very grateful to the staff at both the City of Chicago's Harold Washington Library and the Illinois State Board of Elections for the data and help they provided me. John Frendreis read the entire manuscript and made invaluable suggestions concerning issues related to research design and methodology.