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Party games : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics /

Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the story and admires much of the political carnival, but adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, ele...

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Основен автор: Summers, Mark W. 1951-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ℗♭2004.
Предмети:
1800-1900
Political culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Political parties > United States > History > 19th century.
Power (Social sciences) > United States > History > 19th century.
Political corruption > United States > History > 19th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
Political corruption.
Political culture.
Political parties.
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900.
United States > .
Electronic books.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Party games.
Съдържание:
  • A typical year
  • What else could he have put into h
  • l?
  • Politics is only war without the bayonets
  • The demon lovers
  • The press of public business
  • The best majority money can buy
  • An eye on the Maine chance
  • Anything, Lord, but Milwaukee! : malapportionment and gerrymandering
  • Purse'n'all influence
  • The (round) house of legislation
  • Class warfare, mainstream-party style
  • The treason of the ineffectuals
  • A little knight music
  • The fix is in
  • Dishing the pops.

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