Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters

Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters
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ISBN-10 : 1421429918
ISBN-13 : 9781421429915
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Book Synopsis Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters by : John M. Allswang

Download or read book Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters written by John M. Allswang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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