Today, most party organizations in the United States are sustained by social ties and ideology, rather than by control of jobs, services, and favors. This has reduced governmental corruption in the United States. In some municipal governments, however, the loss of the strong leadership of the machine has made it difficult to develop and implement coherent solutions to municipal problems. Under the leadership of "Boss" Daley, Chicago was known as "the city that works." It is now more difficult for some American cities to make that
