TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allswang,John M.
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters / 
T2  - Hopkins open publishing encore editions
SN  - 9780801833236
AV  - JS309 .A37 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Politicians
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Municipal government
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Originally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986]; Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67889/
ER  -