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020 _a9781421429915
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035 _a(OCoLC)1120076791
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043 _an-us---
050 4 _aJS309
_b.A37 2019
100 1 _aAllswang, John M.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBosses, Machines, and Urban Voters /
_cJohn M. Allswang.
250 _aOpen access edition.
264 1 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bProject Muse,
_c2019
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2019
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (188 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aHopkins open publishing encore editions
500 _aOriginally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986].
500 _aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPreface 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aPolitical 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aPoliticians
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMunicipal government
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_z1421430738
_z9781421430737
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aHopkins open publishing encore editions
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/67889/
999 _c32294
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