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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Edición: | Open access edition. |
| Colección: | Hopkins open publishing encore editions
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Originally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986]. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (188 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421429915 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |