United States
The party system is an essential instrument of Democracy. Wherever government rests upon the popular will, there the party is the organ of expression and the agency of the ultimate power. The party is, moreover, a forerunner of Democracy, for parties have everywhere preceded f...
Before the Revolutionary War numerous societies were organized to aid the cause of Independence. These were sometimes called "Sons of Liberty" and not infrequently "Sons of St....
6. CHAPTER VI. LESSER OLIGARCHIESNew York City is not unique in its experience with political bossdom. Nearly every American city, in a greater or less degree, for longer or shorter periods, has been dominated...
3. CHAPTER III. THE TIDE OF MATERIALISMThe Civil War, which shocked the country into a new national consciousness and rearranged the elements of its economic life, also brought about a new era in political activity a...
10. CHAPTER X. PARTY REFORMThe State, at first, had paid little attention to the party, which was regarded as a purely voluntary aggregation of like-minded citizens. Evidently the State could not dictate...
1. CHAPTER I. THE RISE OF THE PARTYThe party system is an essential instrument of Democracy. Wherever government rests upon the popular will, there the party is the organ of expression and the agency of the ultim...
8. CHAPTER VIII. THE NATIONAL HIERARCHYAmerican political maneuver culminates at Washington. The Presidency and membership in the Senate and the House of Representatives are the great stakes. By a venerable tradition...
11. CHAPTER XI. THE EXPERT AT LASTThe administrative weakness of a democracy, namely, the tendency towards a government by job-hunters, was disclosed even in the early days of the United States, when the officia...
2. CHAPTER II. THE RISE OF THE MACHINEIdeas or principles alone, however eloquently and insistently proclaimed, will not make a party. There must be organization. Thus we have two distinct practical phases of Americ...
7. CHAPTER VII. LEGISLATIVE OMNIPOTENCEThe American people, when they wrote their first state constitutions, were filled with a profound distrust of executive authority, the offspring of their experience with the arb...
4. CHAPTER IV. THE POLITICIAN AND THE CITYThe gigantic national machine that was erected during Grant's administration would have been ineffectual without local sources of power. These sources of power were found in the...
9. CHAPTER IX. THE AWAKENINGIn the early days a ballot was simply a piece of paper with the names of the candidates written or printed on it. As party organizations became more ambitious, the party printed...