Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters (Revised)

revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3032-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 284 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allswang, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the 1986 Edition
Chapter 1. Of City Bosses and College Graduates
Chapter 2. William Marcy Tweed: The First Boss
Chapter 3. Charles Francis Murphy: The Enduring Boss
Chapter 4. Big Bill Thompson and Tony Cermak: The Rival Bosses
Chapter 5. Richard J. Daley: The Last Boss?
Chapter 6. Black Cities, White Machines
Epilogue: Of Bosses and Bossing
For Further Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Allswang, John M.
John Allswang is an American historian from Chicago, Illinois. He is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. He has also been a visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Leiden University, The Netherlands.