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 fo...

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主要作者: Allswang, John M. (Author)
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
版:Open access edition.
叢編:Hopkins open publishing encore editions
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書本目錄:
  • Preface to the 1986 edition
  • Of city bosses and college graduates
  • William Marcy Tweed: the first boss
  • Charles Francis Murphy: the enduring boss
  • Big Bill Thompson and Tony Cermak: the rival bosses
  • Richard J. Daley: the last boss?
  • Black cities, white machines
  • Epilogue: Of bosses and bossing.