Jeffrey D Broxmeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1481600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey D Broxmeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey D |
| FAMILY NAME | Broxmeyer |
| SIGNATURE | BROXMEYER J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toledo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9610-0799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Old Republic: Clientelism in American Political Development
The American state was a republic of patrons and clients throughout the Long Nineteenth Century. Unequal ties of hierarchy and reciprocity went far beyond the partisan administration and electioneering that we associate with the spoils system. As a form of “belated feudalism,” clientelism proved resilient because it was a familial property relation embedded within a diverse and changing society. Officeholding politics subsumed a host of racialize…
New Directions in Political History
This roundtable takes up old themes and new perspectives in the field of political history. Scholars engage with six questions across three main categories: the scope of the field, current debates, and teaching. The first two questions ask how we should think about political power and the boundaries of what constitute political history. The section on current debates interrogates the relationship between governing and social movements during the …
Bringing The “Ring” Back In: The Politics Of Booty Capitalism
One striking parallel between the Gilded Age and today is the return of the “ring” as a volatile form of governance. Rings are small bands of entrepreneurs who, through capture of key political institutions, exploit the coalition-building imperatives of party politics to rapidly accumulate large personal fortunes. The vernacular hails from the 1860s and 1870s, when the Tweed Ring, Gold Ring, Whiskey Ring, and Bank Ring, among others, scandalized …
Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age
Electoral Capitalism brings new perspective to the crisis of inequality during the Gilded Age. Examining how party leaders governed by accumulating wealth through the spoils system, Broxmeyer places in historical context debates over capitalism and democracy that continue to resonate today
The (surprisingly interesting) story of e-mail in the 2016 presidential election
There was more discussion of e-mails and e-mail servers in the 2016 election than any previous campaign. Yet, practically no attention was paid to the actual e-mails distributed by campaigns themselves. This study explores how presidential campaigns used e-mail as a strategic tool during the 2016 election. We collected and analyzed e-mails from all major party candidates over 10 months leading up to election day. The campaigns were organized into…
Embracing Dissent: Political Violence and Party Development in the United States
With today’s acrid party polarization, even casual observers are aware that mundane government operations are becoming extraordinary. Symptoms include government shutdowns and the collapse of civility in public life. Yet compared with earlier periods in American party development, our current stakes are simply “not so great,” according to Jeffrey S. Selinger (p. 177). Polarization before the Civil War continuously posed a far greater threat of vi…
"The Boss's "Brains: Political Capital, Democratic Commerce and the New York Tweed Ring, 1868-1871
Departing from Pierre Bourdieu's contention that capital takes on many forms beyond the economic, including a political form, this article examines how commodification patterned nineteenth century American politics. A case study of the Tweed Ring, which briefly governed Gilded Age New York, is reevaluated as a speculative political bubble that produced empirically identifiable political profits. From an election sweep in 1868 to a bank run in 187…
From the Silver Screen to the Recall Ballot: Schwarzenegger as Terminator and Politician
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s electoral triumph in the 2003 California Recall should be explored through an analysis of his mobilization of the Terminator persona. If read as a social text, the Terminator stands out as an ideological “End of Labor” narrative about class violence as the United States shifted to a postindustrial economy. From the Hollywood box office to the California governor’s office, Schwarzenegger’s Terminator is the quintessential n…
Of Politicians, Populism, and Plates: Marketing the Body Politic
In liberal democracies such as the United States, law emerges from core ritual of the electoral-representation system, the theater of elections. From these cyclical rituals of consent, the people (re)discover political voice in embodied agents who ultimately do the work of governing. Lawmaking as craft, or increasingly as multibillion-dollar industry (CRP 201Oa, 20 1Ob), is performed by those who first pass through an arena where political commit…
"The Boss's "Brains: Political Capital, Democratic Commerce and the New York Tweed Ring, 1868-1871
Departing from Pierre Bourdieu's contention that capital takes on many forms beyond the economic, including a political form, this article examines how commodification patterned nineteenth century American politics. A case study of the Tweed Ring, which briefly governed Gilded Age New York, is reevaluated as a speculative political bubble that produced empirically identifiable political profits. From an election sweep in 1868 to a bank run in 187…
From the Silver Screen to the Recall Ballot: Schwarzenegger as Terminator and Politician
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s electoral triumph in the 2003 California Recall should be explored through an analysis of his mobilization of the Terminator persona. If read as a social text, the Terminator stands out as an ideological “End of Labor” narrative about class violence as the United States shifted to a postindustrial economy. From the Hollywood box office to the California governor’s office, Schwarzenegger’s Terminator is the quintessential n…
Of Politicians, Populism, and Plates: Marketing the Body Politic
In liberal democracies such as the United States, law emerges from core ritual of the electoral-representation system, the theater of elections. From these cyclical rituals of consent, the people (re)discover political voice in embodied agents who ultimately do the work of governing. Lawmaking as craft, or increasingly as multibillion-dollar industry (CRP 201Oa, 20 1Ob), is performed by those who first pass through an arena where political commit…
"The Boss's "Brains: Political Capital, Democratic Commerce and the New York Tweed Ring, 1868-1871
Departing from Pierre Bourdieu's contention that capital takes on many forms beyond the economic, including a political form, this article examines how commodification patterned nineteenth century American politics. A case study of the Tweed Ring, which briefly governed Gilded Age New York, is reevaluated as a speculative political bubble that produced empirically identifiable political profits. From an election sweep in 1868 to a bank run in 187…
Embracing Dissent: Political Violence and Party Development in the United States
With today’s acrid party polarization, even casual observers are aware that mundane government operations are becoming extraordinary. Symptoms include government shutdowns and the collapse of civility in public life. Yet compared with earlier periods in American party development, our current stakes are simply “not so great,” according to Jeffrey S. Selinger (p. 177). Polarization before the Civil War continuously posed a far greater threat of vi…
Bringing The “Ring” Back In: The Politics Of Booty Capitalism
One striking parallel between the Gilded Age and today is the return of the “ring” as a volatile form of governance. Rings are small bands of entrepreneurs who, through capture of key political institutions, exploit the coalition-building imperatives of party politics to rapidly accumulate large personal fortunes. The vernacular hails from the 1860s and 1870s, when the Tweed Ring, Gold Ring, Whiskey Ring, and Bank Ring, among others, scandalized …
Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age
Electoral Capitalism brings new perspective to the crisis of inequality during the Gilded Age. Examining how party leaders governed by accumulating wealth through the spoils system, Broxmeyer places in historical context debates over capitalism and democracy that continue to resonate today
The (surprisingly interesting) story of e-mail in the 2016 presidential election
There was more discussion of e-mails and e-mail servers in the 2016 election than any previous campaign. Yet, practically no attention was paid to the actual e-mails distributed by campaigns themselves. This study explores how presidential campaigns used e-mail as a strategic tool during the 2016 election. We collected and analyzed e-mails from all major party candidates over 10 months leading up to election day. The campaigns were organized into…
New Directions in Political History
This roundtable takes up old themes and new perspectives in the field of political history. Scholars engage with six questions across three main categories: the scope of the field, current debates, and teaching. The first two questions ask how we should think about political power and the boundaries of what constitute political history. The section on current debates interrogates the relationship between governing and social movements during the …
The Old Republic: Clientelism in American Political Development
The American state was a republic of patrons and clients throughout the Long Nineteenth Century. Unequal ties of hierarchy and reciprocity went far beyond the partisan administration and electioneering that we associate with the spoils system. As a form of “belated feudalism,” clientelism proved resilient because it was a familial property relation embedded within a diverse and changing society. Officeholding politics subsumed a host of racialize…
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