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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2019
2019 |
| Edition: | Open access edition |
| Series: | Hopkins open publishing encore editions
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439618106719 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Originally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986]. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (unpaged).) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421430324 |
| Access: | Open access |
