Political machine

In the second half of the nineteenth century cities in the United States began to see a great increase in urban growth, which gave the political machines an opportunity to flourish and gain control of the city. Due to the change from an agricultural society to urban society, things began to to change as people moved to the city for industrial employment. The rapid disorganized growth caused an increase in immigration, poverty, crime, and disease. This gave the machine bosses an opportunity to gain power as a promise of democracy. It was a "You scratch my back, I scratch yours" proposition. Those who needed help made a promise to vote for the"boss". And it worked for a while. The political machines were most often associated with the democratic political party. They became dominant in every large American city by using democracy as a way of giving those who did not have enough what they needed. They also developed relationships with real estate and business operations. Supporters were rewarded with construction contracts, and opportunities to work for the city. Some of these jobs were becoming police officers and and building inspectors. Machines…

21. Explain the purpose of primary elections. A primary election is an “intraparty election used by political parties to select a candidate to run in the general election.” (pg.661) The purpose of primary elections is to narrow down and select a candidate for each party and elect party officers; then the general election will decide who becomes the next president. 22. List the pros and cons of political machines. Political machines are “groups that control activities of a political party.”…

In the late 1800s many large cities seemed to use political machines. Elected officials would cooperate with private businesses to get things done. At the top of these systems were political bosses, who may not have held office, they often knew who to talk to to get things done. The easiest way to get things done was through corruption. While driven by self-interest and the hunger for power, there was some positive influence to these political machines. The tammany hall machine came to power by…

To what extent can Development be understood as an “anti-politics machine”? Nowadays as in the past, many activists in the fields of the human rights approach to development – that James Ferguson regards as “the academic Left” (Ferguson 1990: 269) tout-court – have seen the state as “[…] the chief counter-force to the capitalistic logics of the market and the chief instrument for bringing about progressive economics transformations”, and by doing so “leftists have too often been willing to take…

The book Anti Politics machine is a Foucauldian critique in development. James Ferguson describes different stages of development programs that took place in a small landlocked country called Lesotho completely surrounded by South Africa. It has a population of 2 million where 40% of them live below International Poverty line of US . Thaba-Tseka is a district in Lesotho and its capital Camptown is the only town in the district. Same as it is historically and geographically isolated, the Third…

to the fact the Tammany Halls main population was immigrants the “New Deal” affected them most causing them to stop voting on behalf of Tammany candidates. Sometime after the 1950’s Carmine De Sapo succeeded in assisting Tammany machine re-evolve. (Eleanor Roosevelt Project, 1972) Tammany Hall is a significant phase of American politics because it played an active role in developing Politics in the urban area of New York City. According to Terry Golway who is the author of the book “Machine…

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their nasty hands all over the food. With this it also means less people in contact with your food which is a plus. Fast food places and restaurants are also getting touch screen ordering stations that will make eating out more convenient, faster service, and the robots making you food won’t mess up your order. Because when you say no pickles you mean no pickles…right? Another thing for people who hate going to get things from the store might like is the fully automated self-service retail…

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way of living. We are becoming less responsible to finish our tasks and more reliable on machines to do it for us. Henig talks about how robots will help humans to finish tasks more quickly and neatly. He also said that we could save a lot of our valuable time and make our ecosystem more secure. Kelly’s analysis of the causes, consequences and solutions to the technology can help us…