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Autore |
Allswang John M. |
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Titolo |
Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters / John M. Allswang |
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019 |
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©2019 |
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ISBN |
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0-8018-3323-X |
1-4214-3032-0 |
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Edizione |
[Open access edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 PDF (unpaged).) |
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Collana |
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Hopkins open publishing encore editions |
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Soggetti |
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Politicians - United States - History |
Municipal government - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986]. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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. |
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