John M Allswang

Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters (Revised)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781421430324
• ISBN-10: 1421430320
• Artikelnr.: 57348057

Autorenporträt

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.