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072 7 _aPOL040040
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082 0 4 _a324.2747009/034
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBroxmeyer, Jeffrey D.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aElectoral Capitalism :
_bThe Party System in New York's Gilded Age /
_cJeffrey D. Broxmeyer.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
_b19 illus.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aAmerican Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tThe Tammany Bank Run of 1871 --
_tChapter 1. Tammany Hall’s Lost Financial Sector --
_tDawn of the Conkling Machine --
_tChapter 2. Republican Party Business --
_tCan’t You Help Me in Gettin the Vacant Place for Me --
_tChapter 3. Partisan Poor Relief --
_tThe Henry George Boom Fades --
_tChapter 4. Anti-Monopoly in the Age of Party Consolidation --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aVast fortunes grew out of the party system during the Gilded Age. In New York, party leaders experimented with novel ways to accumulate capital for political competition and personal business. Partisans established banks. They drove a speculative frenzy in finance, real estate, and railroads. And they built empires that stretched from mining to steamboats, and from liquor distilleries to newspapers. Control over political property—party organizations, public charters, taxpayer subsidies, and political offices—served to form governing coalitions, and to mobilize voting blocs.In Electoral Capitalism, Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer reappraises the controversy over wealth inequality, and why this period was so combustible. As ranks of the dispossessed swelled, an outpouring of claims transformed the old spoils system into relief for the politically connected poor. A vibrant but scorned culture of petty officeholding thus emerged. By the turn of the century, an upsurge of grassroots protest sought to dislodge political bosses from their apex by severing the link between party and capital.Examining New York, and its outsized role in national affairs, Broxmeyer demonstrates that electoral capitalism was a category of entrepreneurship in which the capture of public office and the accumulation of wealth were mutually reinforcing. The book uncovers hidden economic ties that wove together presidents, senators, and mayors with business allies, spoilsmen, and voters. Today, great political fortunes have dramatically returned. As current public debates invite parallels with the Gilded Age, Broxmeyer offers historical and theoretical tools to make sense of how politics begets wealth.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aCapitalism
_xPolitical aspects
_zNew York (State)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aPolitical corruption
_zNew York (State)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aPolitical culture
_zNew York (State)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aPolitical parties
_zNew York (State)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local.
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653 _aPolitical Science.
653 _aPublic Policy.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297232
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297232
856 4 2 _3Cover
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