Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters (Paperback, revised edition)

Originally published in 1986. 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.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2020
First published:	1986
Authors:	John M. Allswang
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	188
Edition:	revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4214-3032-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4214-3032-0
Barcode:	9781421430324

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