Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters

• Main Author: Allswang, John M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Subjects: History of the Americas
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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 c...