the ethnic landscape brokerage and machine politics transition to function based power
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The ethnic network: Is it an ethnic trap? Arrival in Urban America Journey to America Famine Beginning in 1840’s Religion as community development Politics viewed as a business ventureTRANSCRIPT
The Ethnic Landscape Brokerage and Machine politics
Transition to Function Based Power
Irish JewsItalians Poles
The ethnic network: Is it an ethnic trap? Arrival in Urban America
Journey to America Famine Beginning in 1840’s
Religion as community development
Politics viewed as a business venture
Arrived after the Civil War
Competition with the Irish
Political relevance of Italian social structure (compadrasco)
Political ramifications of an ethnic business class
Organized crime & the melting pot
Recent conflict with Afro-Americans Philadelphia: Jewish Quarter
Migration – Central & Eastern Europe
Strong ideological bias LiberalismSocialismAnti-machine
reformism More middle
class
Arrived beginning in 1870’s
Especially numerous in Great Lake cities
Ethnic communities cohesive & strong
Late arrival placed them at bottom of ethnic totem pole
Disdain of intellectual class diminished their influence until closing decades of twentieth century
Relationship of Ethnic Politics, Brokerage and Machine Politics
Significance of Ethnic Politics, Brokerage and Machine Politics Today
The Bias of Ethnic and Machine Politics
Variation in the MidwestMore job
orientedGreater
attention to issues
Examples Chicago – Mayor
Richard DaleyKansas City –
Pendergast Machine
Kansas City: Midwest Urban Center
Nature of Brokerage Politics Ethnicity predominatesLeader of ethnic group acts a middleman
Nature of Machine Politics Behind the scene bosses in controlWeak elected officialsPatronage central
ExamplesTammany Hall Model (Manhattan) Republican machine in Philadelphia
Impact of the frontier Progressive Movement
Ethnicity continues to trump party identification
Concern over Afro-American influence has blurred ethnic politics`
Conservative bias Bias against minority groups Bias against systematic social policy
making
Organized labor Church Raises question as to whether new
minority groups can develop ethnic institutions that contribute to upward mobility