Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters

di John M. Allswang (Autore)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

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.

• Autore: John M. Allswang
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 188 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 272 gr.
• EAN: 9781421430324

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