Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters /

Political machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth-century urban politics, political machines mobilized urban voters by providing services in exchange for voters' support of a party or candidate. Allswang examines four ma...

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Hlavní autor: Allswang, John M. (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Vydání:Open access edition.
Edice:Hopkins open publishing encore editions
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Shrnutí:Political machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth-century urban politics, political machines mobilized urban voters by providing services in exchange for voters' support of a party or candidate. Allswang examines four machines and five urban bosses over the course of a century. He argues that efforts to extract a meaningful general theory from the American experience of political machines are difficult given the particularity of each city's history. A city's composition largely determined the character of its political machines. Furthermore, while political machines are often regarded as nondemocratic and corrupt, Allswang discusses the strengths of the urban machine approach--chief among those being its ability to organize voters around specific issues.
Popis jednotky:Originally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986].
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Fyzický popis:1 online resource (188 pages).
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781421429915
Přístup:Open Access