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 Machine Politics
The potent Democratic machine that dominated Chicago politics for nearly half a century formed under the leadership of Anton Cermak, a Bohemian immigrant of working-class origins.
Nor did the election to the mayoralty of Richard M. Daley, the eldest son of the deceased boss, indicate a resurrection of the machine in a new guise.
As the younger Daley readily acknowledged, radically different demographics and the attendant alterations in the political calculus clearly made the machine politics for which Chicago became famous an anachronism by the end of the twentieth century.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/774.html   (1044 words)

  
 Political machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A political machine is an unofficial system of political organization based on patronage, the spoils system, and "behind-the-scenes" control within the structure of a representative democracy.
Often, this system of favors is supplemented by threats of violence or harassment toward those who attempt to step outside of it.
In Mayors and Money, a comparison of municipal government in Chicago and New York, Ester R. Fuchs credited the Chicago Democratic Machine with giving Mayor Daley the political power to deny unions contracts that the city could not afford and to make the state assume burdensome costs like welfare and courts.
www.clarksville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Machine_politics   (527 words)

  
 Political machine - Ubisoft Store - The Political Machine
The Political Machine is a fun 2004 US election simulation from Brad But part of the beauty of The Political Machine is how fluid it is.
Political insiders suggest Ohio could become as decisive this year as Florida was four years ago.
The Political Machine is a strategy game in which players The Political Machine is both a single-player game (against the computer) as well as a
political-machine.getinfoeasy.com   (287 words)

  
 Chicago (city, Illinois) - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race.
The struggle between the white political machine and a growing fl population.
Social and political history of the effects of the fire.
encarta.msn.com /readings_761576998/Chicago_(city_Illinois).html   (176 words)

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