2013, ISBN: 1230311068

Paperback, [EAN: 9781230311067], TheClassics.us, TheClassics.us, Book, [PU: TheClassics.us], 2013-09-12, TheClassics.us, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… Plus…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781230311067], TheClassics.us, TheClassics.us, Book, [PU: TheClassics.us], 2013-09-12, TheClassics.us, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... Machine enables them also to grant small favours and to render services of less importance. If the resources in influence and money at the disposal of the precinct leader are inadequate, he refers to the leader of the district, who almost always finds the ways and means; in cases where that is beyond the latter's powers, where an exceptionally strong "pull " or an authoritative act is required, the leader applies to the boss. This is the proper moment for us also to transport ourselves into the higher sphere of the Machine, in which the boss reigns supreme. III The operations of the "leaders," which bear rather on the lower strata of the population, enable the Machine to "fix the primaries," to form the conventions of delegates to its liking, and to bring the big battalions up to the poll. But the respectable portion of the electorate would often be capable of rejecting the candidates of the Machine, for these latter are not the most deserving individuals. The Machine cannot afford the luxury of high-class candidates: they would not be able to render it the services on which it subsists; a man of independent mind and anxious to do his duty could not provide it with the pulls with which it obtains the votes of the electors. Besides, some Machines, such as Tammany for instance, are obliged to let in notorious bandits as a measure of precaution: the latter have, either as accomplices or spectators, become acquainted with certain wrongful deeds of the Machine, and they might make dangerous revelations. 'In any event, the necessities of its existence always impel the Machine to prefer as candidates men who are rather at the lower end of their respective social sphere, whether it is a case of a city councilman or..., 275870, Government & Politics, 275890, Civil Liberties & Political Activism, 496554, Countries & Regions, 496870, Economics, 275885, International Institutions, 275882, International Relations, 275901, Political Science & Ideology, 275915, Political Structure & Processes, 275941, Reference, 60, Society, Politics & Philosophy, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

2013, ISBN: 9781230311067

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Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties Volume 2 Moisei Ostrogorski, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties Volume 2 Books>Soc… Plus…

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2013, ISBN: 1230311068

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