Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters / John M. Allswang
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 |
| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019 | |
| ©2019 | |
| Edizione: | Open access edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (unpaged).) |
| Disciplina: | 320.8/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Politicians - United States - History |
| Municipal government - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Originally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986]. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-3323-X |
| 1-4214-3032-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524677003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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