Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters

• Autor principal: Allswang, John M. (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Materias: History of the Americas
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...