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Open access edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (unpaged.) |
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text file |
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Hopkins open publishing encore editions
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Hopkins Open Publishing encore editions.
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Note |
Originally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986]. |
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Politicians -- United States -- History.
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Politicians. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Municipal government -- United States -- History.
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Municipal government. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1421430738 9781421430737 |
| ISBN |
9781421429915 |
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1421429918 |
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9781421430737 |
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