02994oam 22005654a 450 991052467700332120241204165312.00-8018-3323-X1-4214-3032-0(CKB)4100000010460802(OCoLC)1120076791(MdBmJHUP)muse77198(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88812(MiAaPQ)EBC29139067(Au-PeEL)EBL29139067(oapen)doab88812(OCoLC)1526864242(EXLCZ)99410000001046080220190913d2019 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBosses, Machines, and Urban VotersJohn M. AllswangOpen access edition.Johns Hopkins University Press2019Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2019©20191 online resource (1 PDF (unpaged).)Hopkins open publishing encore editionsOriginally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986].1-4214-3073-8 1-4214-2991-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Hopkins open publishing encore editionsPoliticiansUnited StatesHistoryMunicipal governmentUnited StatesHistoryPoliticiansHistory.Municipal governmentHistory.320.8/0973Allswang John M.1088358MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524677003321Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters2605786UNINA