美國進步時期城市政黨組織與下層階級人民的互動關係之研究

The City Machine Politics and the Lower Class in the Progressive ERA

黃文齡(Wen-Ling Huang)

《美國研究》 21卷3期 (1991/09) Pp. 47-81

https://doi.org/10.7015/AS.199109.0047

並列摘要

City machine politics had been an important part of American urban life since the Civil War, mainly in two aspects: the political machine and the boss, its leader. Most urban historians examined the relations between the lower class and the political machine from the Progressive's point of view or from that of the upper class. This study argues that the lower class chose the political machine and the boss, not the Progressives, as its representatives in the legal process of election. The machine and the boss did not ＂steal＂ the vote, nor did the lower class neglect its voting right. The interaction went under way mainly based on mutual trust and recognition, not purely on material basis. The lower class elected its political representatives in this middle-class Progressive Movement through supporting the machine, and the machine in turn got the political power.