{"product_id":"bosses-machines-and-urban-voters-john-m-allswang-9781421430324","title":"Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John M. Allswang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421430320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421430324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"John M. Allswang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930780942591,"sku":"9781421430324","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c230005f-8408-44f6-be23-14ba26b2ea2a.jpg?v=1766344224","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bosses-machines-and-urban-voters-john-m-allswang-9781421430324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}