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Author | : John M. Allswang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
ISBN | : 9781421429915 |
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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.
Author | : John M. Allswang |
Publisher | : Kennikat Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John M. Allswang |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421430738 |
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Originally published in 1986. 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.
Author | : Bruce M. Stave |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Urban Bosses, Machines, and Progressive Reformers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Terry Golway |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2014-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0871407922 |
Download Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
Author | : Jeffrey F. Kraus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lincoln Steffens |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486147665 |
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Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.
Author | : Jessica Trounstine |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226812820 |
Download Political Monopolies in American Cities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Around the same time that Richard J. Daley governed Chicago, greasing the wheels of his notorious political machine during a tenure that lasted from 1955 to his death in 1976, Anthony “Dutch” Hamann’s “reform” government centralized authority to similar effect in San Jose. In light of their equally exclusive governing arrangements—a similarity that seems to defy their reputations—Jessica Trounstine asks whether so-called bosses and reformers are more alike than we might have realized. Situating her in-depth studies of Chicago and San Jose in the broad context of data drawn from more than 240 cities over the course of a century, she finds that the answer—a resounding yes—illuminates the nature of political power. Both political machines and reform governments, she reveals, bias the system in favor of incumbents, effectively establishing monopolies that free governing coalitions from dependence on the support of their broader communities. Ironically, Trounstine goes on to show, the resulting loss of democratic responsiveness eventually mobilizes residents to vote monopolistic regimes out of office. Envisioning an alternative future for American cities, Trounstine concludes by suggesting solutions designed to free urban politics from this damaging cycle.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John D. Haeger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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