Papers by Terrence McDonald
The University of Michigan Press eBooks, 1996
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 1988
... recently noted for the national case, the polity has received very little attention of the so... more ... recently noted for the national case, the polity has received very little attention of the sort "lavished on the nation's social and economic systems."7 To note that there has been a dearth of good urban political history is to repeat a truism, however, for as Eric Lampard has noted ...
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
powerful. The notion of the omnipotent boss might well miss the complexity of city politics and m... more powerful. The notion of the omnipotent boss might well miss the complexity of city politics and may be more a rhetorical device than an expression of reality. When he wanted to reinforce his late nineteenth century view of local government as a conspicuous failure, the Englishman, Lord James Bryce, described the boss as "dominant among his fellows ... He dispenses places, rewards the loyal, punishes the mutinous, concocts schemes, negotiates treaties. He generally avoids publicity, preferring the substance to the pomp of power, and is all the more dangerous because he sits, like a spider, hidden in the midst of his web. He is a Boss."2 The boss as spider, the boss as feudal lord, the boss as omnipotent commander-in-chief may have been accurate in a very few cases, but generally such a description missed the mark. Yet, in our own time, when many observers claim the boss and his political machine have disappeared, politicians, particularly during campaigns, often effectively employ "boss" and "bossism" as an epithet against rivals.
Social History, Oct 1, 1985
Journal of Urban History, May 1, 1982
Studies in American Political Development, 1989
Professor Katznelson&... more Professor Katznelson's essay deserves a lengthy reply, but space limitations require me to keep my response brief. I strongly disagree with the way that he has characterized the thrust of my essay, the point of my other work, and the implications of recent work by other urban historians. But rather than hash over these misinterpretations, I will focus instead on the issue between us that I think has the most relevance for future work on the role of urban politics in American political development: the utility of a focus on the urban political machine.
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1985
Fuchs books.google.com-The existing literature on urban history focuses chiefly on the social asp... more Fuchs books.google.com-The existing literature on urban history focuses chiefly on the social aspects, while political and fiscal components of urban history have The Parameters Of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change. The Politics of urban fiscal policy. Book. ISBN0803923732. 0 people like this topic. Harvard Library Open Metadata.
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
Reviews in American History, Jun 1, 1994
In 1958 sociologist Joseph Fichter reported that students in the upper grades of a midwestern pub... more In 1958 sociologist Joseph Fichter reported that students in the upper grades of a midwestern public school listed as the "greatest men living today" President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, and Elvis Presley (in that order). Catholic school students of the same age and in the same area listed Pope Pius XII, President Eisenhower, and Cardinal Mindzenty of Hungary.' Were differences like these dangerous signs of Catholic "divisiveness" and possible national disintegration or the perfectly legitimate outcome of cultural pluralism? As Philip Gleason reminds us, in the early 1950s there were those who thought the former, and therefore criticized a variety of Catholic institutional initiatives on this basis. At the height of this controversy, for example, the liberal Protestant journal Christian Century denounced cultural pluralism as a "national menace." Yet there was, Gleason points out, no clear way that either the Catholics or their critics distinguished what was legitimately pluralistic from what was divisive: "Divisiveness was an invidious term for forms of social differentiation one disapproved of, while pluralism was a positive label for differences one found acceptable or good" (p. 65). In the years since then many historians have oscillated between two approaches to these issues-assimilationist on the one hand, and social or political constructionist on the other-that were first outlined in Milton Gordon's 1964 book, Assimilation in American Life, and Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan's 1963 book, Beyond the Melting Pot. Like many of his generation, Gordon conceived of race, ethnicity, and religion (which he saw as significantly mapped onto one another) as existing in the social realm of the primary and private relationships of family, church, and ethnoreligious communal organization, while assimilation occurred when members of these institutions moved out into the crossethnic-and therefore culturally more
Reviews in American History, Sep 1, 1992
... While at Columbia he dined with Morris Hillquit and Up-ton Sinclair and in 1912 he once stood... more ... While at Columbia he dined with Morris Hillquit and Up-ton Sinclair and in 1912 he once stood in line at Carnegie Hall for two hours waiting to hear "Fighting Bob" La Follette expound on the issues of the pres-idential campaign, only to be turned away-along with four or five ...
The History Teacher, May 1, 1988
Southern Economic Journal, Jul 1, 1988
... recently noted for the national case, the polity has received very little attention of the so... more ... recently noted for the national case, the polity has received very little attention of the sort "lavished on the nation's social and economic systems."7 To note that there has been a dearth of good urban political history is to repeat a truism, however, for as Eric Lampard has noted ...
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1986
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