City Bosses And Political Machines
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City Bosses And Political Machines
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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City Bosses And Political Machines
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Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
City Bosses And Political Machines written by American Academy of Political and Social Science and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Municipal government categories.
Bosses Machines And Urban Voters
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Author : John M. Allswang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Bosses Machines And Urban Voters written by John M. Allswang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Municipal government categories.
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.
Bosses And Reformers
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Author : Blaine A. Brownell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Bosses And Reformers written by Blaine A. Brownell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.
The story of urban politics in the years between 1880 and 1920 has all too often been perceived, by journalistic muckrakers and academic historians alike, as a ceaseless struggle between bosses and reformers, with the reformers winning out in the end. The major view expressed in this book is that this boss-reformer dichtomy is not valid; political leaders and their organizations, ideas, and goals simply do not fit into the regid framework that such a notion imposes on the incredibly complex reality of urban politics. -- Preface.
Urban Bosses Machines And Progressive Reformers
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Author : Bruce M. Stave
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Urban Bosses Machines And Progressive Reformers written by Bruce M. Stave and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Political Science categories.
Bosses Machines And Urban Voters
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Author : John M. Allswang
language : en
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Release Date : 1977
Bosses Machines And Urban Voters written by John M. Allswang and has been published by Kennikat Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia
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Author : Peter McCaffery
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia written by Peter McCaffery and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Political Science categories.
In 1903, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens brought the city of Philadelphia lasting notoriety as "the most corrupt and the most contented" urban center in the nation. Famous for its colorful "feudal barons," from "King James" McManes and his "Gas Ring" to "Iz" Durham and "Sunny Jim" McNichol, Philadelphia offers the historian a classic case of the duel between bosses and reformers for control of the American city. But, strangely enough, Philadelphia's Republican machine has not been subject to critical examination until now. When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia challenges conventional wisdom on the political machine, which has it that party bosses controlled Philadelphia as early as the 1850s and maintained that control, with little change, until the Great Depression. According to Peter McCaffery, however, all bosses were not alike, and political power came only gradually over time. McManes's "Gas Ring" in the 1870s was not as powerful as the well-oiled machine ushered in by Matt Quay in the late 1880s. Through a careful analysis of city records, McCaffery identifies the beneficiaries of the emerging Republican Organization, which sections of the local electorate supported it, and why. He concludes that genuine boss rule did not emerge as the dominant institution in Philadelphia politics until just before the turn of the century. McCaffery considers the function that the machine filled in the life of the city. Did it ultimately serve its supporters and the community as a whole, as Steffens and recent commentators have suggested? No, says McCaffery. The romantic image of the boss as "good guy" of the urban drama is wholly undeserved.
Political Monopolies In American Cities
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Author : Jessica Trounstine
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Political Monopolies In American Cities written by Jessica Trounstine and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Political Science categories.
Around the same time that Richard J. Daley governed Chicago, greasing the wheels of his notorious political machine during a tenure that lasted from 1955 to his death in 1976, Anthony “Dutch” Hamann’s “reform” government centralized authority to similar effect in San Jose. In light of their equally exclusive governing arrangements—a similarity that seems to defy their reputations—Jessica Trounstine asks whether so-called bosses and reformers are more alike than we might have realized. Situating her in-depth studies of Chicago and San Jose in the broad context of data drawn from more than 240 cities over the course of a century, she finds that the answer—a resounding yes—illuminates the nature of political power. Both political machines and reform governments, she reveals, bias the system in favor of incumbents, effectively establishing monopolies that free governing coalitions from dependence on the support of their broader communities. Ironically, Trounstine goes on to show, the resulting loss of democratic responsiveness eventually mobilizes residents to vote monopolistic regimes out of office. Envisioning an alternative future for American cities, Trounstine concludes by suggesting solutions designed to free urban politics from this damaging cycle.
Machine Made Tammany Hall And The Creation Of Modern American Politics
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Author : Terry Golway
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-03-03
Machine Made Tammany Hall And The Creation Of Modern American Politics written by Terry Golway and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-03 with History categories.
“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
The Shame Of The Cities
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Author : Lincoln Steffens
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-08
The Shame Of The Cities written by Lincoln Steffens and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-08 with History categories.
Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.