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050		4	_aJS309 _b.A37 2019
100	1		_aAllswang, John M., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBosses, Machines, and Urban Voters _cJohn M. Allswang.
250			_aOpen access edition.
264		1	_bProject Muse,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (unpaged.)
490	0		_aHopkins open publishing encore editions
500			_aOriginally published: Revised edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986].
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface to the 1986 edition -- Of city bosses and college graduates -- William Marcy Tweed: the first boss -- Charles Francis Murphy: the enduring boss -- Big Bill Thompson and Tony Cermak: the rival bosses -- Richard J. Daley: the last boss? -- Black cities, white machines -- Epilogue: Of bosses and bossing.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aPolitical 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aPoliticians _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aMunicipal government _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z1421430738 _z9781421430737
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aHopkins open publishing encore editions
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/67889/
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