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32-411: Until the charter of 1925, the council comprised 32 members—six elected at-large and 26 elected from single-member wards. The 1925 charter instituted the present nine-member council elected in a single non-partisan , at-large election. From 1925 to 1955, elections were under the single transferable vote form of proportional representation . The mayor was chosen by the council from among its members. In

64-645: A Kellett Fellowship . One of his mentors at Columbia was scholar of US history James P. Shenton . In 1975 he earned an M.A. at Yale University and in 1980 received his Ph.D., also from Yale, under David Brion Davis 's supervision. Wilentz's historical scholarship has focused on the importance of class and race in the early national period , especially in New York City . Wilentz has also co-authored books on nineteenth-century religion and working-class life. His highly detailed The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (W. W. Norton, 2005) won

96-604: A "crisis" within the Republican Party, claiming the party was gradually descending into extremism . In 2008 Wilentz was an outspoken supporter of Senator Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for the presidency. He wrote an essay in the New Republic analyzing Senator Barack Obama 's campaign, charging Obama with creating "manipulative illusion[s]" and "distortions," and having "purposefully polluted

128-553: A democratic government, but they are not inimical to it, either. This the leakers will never understand." In October 2020, Wilentz called U.S. President Donald Trump "the worst president in American history" for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and political polarization of the country . He further wrote that Trump and Attorney General William Barr had created the greatest "existential crisis for American democracy" since

160-645: A president who more closely resembles an elected monarch ." After the 2021 United States Capitol attack Wilentz predicted that if Trump and the Republican Party returned to power in the 2022 and 2024 elections , they would legally establish "a more or less ironclad system of undemocratic minority rule " to permanently block liberal policies and end majority democracy , calling them "right-wing Bolsheviks ." He compared Trump to John C. Calhoun and Richard Nixon . Wilentz lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife Caroline Cleaves and their children. Wilentz

192-548: Is a good example of a nonpartisan organization. The New York Times has at times listed the organization as being liberal , liberal-centrist, centrist , and conservative . In 2008, The New York Times published an article where it referred to the "conservative Brookings Institution". In the Progressive Era , the Nonpartisan League was an influential socialist political movement, especially in

224-551: Is a lack of affiliation with, and a lack of bias towards, a political party . While an Oxford English Dictionary definition of partisan includes adherents of a party, cause, person, etc., in most cases, nonpartisan refers specifically to political party connections rather than being the strict antonym of "partisan". In Canada, the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and

256-485: Is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University , where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, most notably, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln , which

288-453: Is by definition antidemocratic, as political parties have been the only reliable electoral vehicles for advancing the ideas and interests of ordinary voters". However, nonpartisan elections are quite common at the local level, primarily in an effort to keep national issues from being mixed up with local issues. Today, nonpartisan elections are generally held for municipal and county offices, especially school board , and are also common in

320-855: Is scheduled for November 2025. Italic type indicates incumbent . (D) indicates Democratic Party candidate. (R) indicates Republican Party candidate. (G) indicates Green party candidate. (C) indicates Charter Committee candidate. (I) indicates no party affiliation . Damon Lynch III (I): 21,764 Leslie Ghiz (R): 19,916 Chris Monzel (R): 19,197 Barbara W. Trauth (I): 17,480 John Connelly (I): 14,047 Pete Witte (I): 13,479 Terry Deters (I): 11,889 John F. Schlagetter (C): 11,420 Tom Jones (I): 10,441 Samuel T. Britton (I): 9,778 Howard H. Bond (I): 8,260 Nick Spencer (C): 7,378 Marilyn Hyland (I): 5,864 Brian Garry (G): 5,504 Eric Wilson (I): 2,686 Glenn O. Givens Sr. (I): 2,327 Larry J. Frazier (I): 2,323 Non-partisan Nonpartisanship , also known as nonpartisanism ,

352-867: The National Review attacked Wilentz's analysis as "blinkered" and called him "the modern Arthur Schlesinger Jr ." Wilentz followed up during the 2008 general election with another article in Rolling Stone describing how the failures of the Bush administration had caused a "political meltdown" of the Republican Party , with potentially enormous long-term effects. In the wake of the October, 2013 federal government shutdown , he authored another article in Rolling Stone on what he called

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384-423: The 2009 Indian general election . The campaign was a non-partisan campaign initiated by Anal Saha . Historian Sean Wilentz argues that from the days of George Washington's farewell address, to Senator Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic national convention in 2004, politicians have called upon Americans to move beyond parties. Wilentz calls this the post-partisan style, and argues that "the antiparty current

416-569: The American Civil War through their alleged politicization of the U.S. Department of Justice and attempted delegitimization of the 2020 presidential election , comparing Trump's ideology to the Confederacy and calling it "a bacillus of racism and authoritarianism ." He also claimed Barr was advancing "an Americanized version of something more akin to Generalissimo Francisco Franco 's Spain " and "a theocracy , overseen by

448-648: The Beat generation , and the recording of Blonde on Blonde . Wilentz has prominently engaged in current political debate. He is reportedly a long-time family friend of the Clintons. He has appeared in public venues as a staunch defender of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton : he appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on December 8, 1998, to argue against the Clinton impeachment . He told

480-477: The Legislative Assembly of Nunavut are the only bodies at the provincial/territorial level that are currently nonpartisan; they operate on a consensus government system. The autonomous Nunatsiavut Assembly operates similarly on a sub-provincial level. In India , the Jaago Re! One Billion Votes campaign was a non-partisan campaign initiated by Tata Tea , and Janaagraha to encourage citizens to vote in

512-476: The "unrepentant terrorist William Ayers ." For Wilentz, Obama was untested, cloudy, and problematic, with liberal intellectuals giving him a free ride. Wilentz was criticized by bloggers and others for his criticism of Obama. In January 2014, Wilentz took issue with those involved in the 2013 NSA leaks , in particular Edward Snowden , Glenn Greenwald , and Julian Assange . In Wilentz's view, "the value of some of their revelations does not mean that they deserve

544-426: The 1970s, the system was changed so that the top vote-getter in the council election automatically became mayor. Since 2001, the mayor is chosen in a separate election . Although the election officially is non-partisan, the local Charterite party and three of the major political parties ( Democratic , Republican , and Green Party ) all endorse candidates in the race. Party designations, however, can be fluid. After

576-401: The 1997 election, for example, Democrats Minette Cooper and Dwight Tillery formed a majority coalition on the council with Republicans Charlie Winburn, Phil Heimlich, and Jeanette Cissell. Prior to 2013, council members were elected for two-year terms. In 2013, a referendum was passed changing City Council to four-year terms. In 2018, two competing proposals were placed on the ballot to modify

608-411: The 70s and the avant-garde more recently. Back then we were trying to recover a lost past or neglected past. More recently historians have been trying to integrate that vision into a larger vision of American history as a whole." While a professor at Princeton, Wilentz was Elena Kagan 's senior thesis advisor. As a contributing editor at The New Republic , Wilentz has published essays about music,

640-468: The Bancroft Prize. His goal was to revive the reputation of Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian democracy , which was under attack from the left because of Jackson's support for slavery and pursuit of escaped slaves , and especially his harshness toward Native Americans , including his forced removals of Indian populations from land confiscated by European-ancestry populations. Wilentz returned to

672-681: The House members that if they voted for impeachment but were not convinced Clinton's offenses were impeachable, "...history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." His testimony cheered Democratic partisans but was criticized by The New York Times , which lamented his "gratuitously patronizing presentation" in an editorial. In 2006, he wrote an article denouncing the George W. Bush presidency. Titled "The Worst President in History?", it appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. In response,

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704-865: The Upper Midwest , particularly during the 1910s and 1920s. It also contributed much to the ideology of the former Progressive Party of Canada . It went into decline and merged with the Democratic Party of North Dakota to form the North Dakota Democratic–;NPL Party in 1956. In the history of Milwaukee , the "Nonpartisans" were an unofficial but widely recognized coalition of Republicans and Democrats who cooperated in an effort to keep Milwaukee's Sewer Socialists out of as many offices as possible, including in elections which were officially non-partisan, but in which Socialists and "Nonpartisans" were clearly identified in

736-668: The [primary electoral] contest" with "the most outrageous deployment of racial politics since the Willie Horton ad campaign in 1988." During the 2008 Democratic National Convention , Wilentz charged in Newsweek that " liberal intellectuals have largely abdicated their responsibility to provide unblinking and rigorous analysis" of Obama. "Hardly any prominent liberal thinkers" have questioned his "rationalizations" about his relationship to his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., or "his patently evasive accounts" of his "ties" to

768-481: The ability for donors to take a tax deduction, they are required to remain nonpartisan. This has caused some to question the ability of organizations that have the appearance of partisanship. The Brookings Institution is a Washington, D.C. think tank and 501(c)(3) non-profit, nonpartisan organization. Since its founding in 1916, it has had both identifiable Republicans and Democrats among its leadership. Owing to leadership changes such as this, some argue that it

800-471: The arts, history, and politics. He received a Grammy nomination and a 2005 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for the liner notes Wilentz contributed to the album The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall . In 2010, Wilentz published Bob Dylan In America , which placed Dylan in the context of American 20th century history and culture. The book contained essays on Dylan's relationship to Aaron Copland , Allen Ginsberg and

832-476: The election of judges. The unicameral Legislature of Nebraska is the only state legislature that is entirely officially nonpartisan; additionally, the bicameral Fono of American Samoa is the only territorial legislature that is officially nonpartisan. Although elections may be officially nonpartisan, in some elections (usually involving larger cities or counties, as well as the Nebraska unicameral)

864-660: The party affiliations of candidates are generally known, most commonly by the groups endorsing a particular candidate (e.g., a candidate endorsed by a labor union would be generally affiliated with the Democratic Party, while a candidate endorsed by a business coalition would be generally affiliated with the Republican Party). Churches and charities in the United States are mainly formed under US Internal Revenue Service tax code 501(c)(3) non-profit organization regulations. To maintain that tax-exempt status, and

896-536: The press. (Such candidates were sometimes called "fusion" candidates. ) This lasted from the 1910s well into the 1940s. (The similar effort in 1888 to prevent Herman Kroeger 's election as a Union Labor candidate had been conducted under the banner of a temporary "Citizen's Party" label. ) During the period of Socialist- Progressive cooperation (1935–1941), the two sides were called "Progressives" and "Nonpartisans". Sean Wilentz Robert Sean Wilentz ( / w ɪ ˈ l ɛ n t s / ; born February 20, 1951)

928-407: The prestige and influence that has been accorded to them. The leakers and their supporters would never hand the state modern surveillance powers, even if they came wrapped in all sorts of rules and regulations that would constrain their abuse. They are right to worry, but wrong – even paranoid – to distrust democratic governments in this way. Surveillance and secrecy will never be attractive features of

960-514: The pro-Jackson themes of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. , who in 1946 had hailed the pro-labor policies of Northern, urban Jacksonians. He has more recently turned his scholarship to modern U.S. history, notably in The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 , published in May 2008. Columbia professor Eric Foner , a long-time friend, says Wilentz "has written some of the very best examples of the avant-garde of

992-500: The structure of the City Council yet again. Issue 10 would bring back two-year terms; Issue 11 would keep four-year terms but stagger them, such that five council members would be elected in a mayoral election year, and four council members would be elected two years later. Issue 10 passed with a larger margin of victory, and the City Council returned to two-year terms beginning with the 2021 election. The next city council election

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1024-761: Was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . Wilentz was born on February 20, 1951, in New York City , where his father, Eli Wilentz, and uncle Theodore "Ted" Wilentz, owned a well-known Greenwich Village bookstore, the Eighth Street Bookshop. He is of Jewish and Irish ancestry. Wilentz attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, and earned one B.A. at Columbia University in 1972, before earning another at Balliol College, Oxford , in 1974 on

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