Reform-Resistant and Reform-Adopting Machines
The Electoral Foundations of Urban Politics, 1910-1930
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6339757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James G Gimpel (0000-0002-1656-4156, University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author), James Gimpel (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 371-382 |
| Publication date | 1993-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591299304600209 |
| OpenAlex | W2046357719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article sheds light on the relationship between municipal electoral characteristics, progressive reform adoption, and the presence of machine political systems for the period between 1910 and 1930. Machine politicians and their supporters did stand in the way of reform, but not everywhere. A two-stage model suggests that the electoral factors contributing to machine presence are not exactly the same as those contributing to resistance to reform. Ethnic factors figure prominently in the results. Cities with high and increasing percentages of Irish immigrants resisted reforms even in cities where there was no machine. Literacy rates and the availability of patronage are important to the presence of machine organization, but make no independent difference to reform resistance. Receptivity to reform was frequently exogenous to whether a city was machine dominated
Democracy · Economics · Electoral reform · Ethnic group · Immigration · Immigration policy · Immigration reform · Irish · Political economy · Political machine · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Irish and British Studies · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |