Setting the stereotype, by J. Bryce.
Why the ward boss rules, by J. Addams.
The shame of the cities, by L. Steffens.
Bosses preserve the Nation, by G. W. Plunkitt.
The latent functions of the machine, by R. K. Merton.
The study of corruption, by E. L. McKitrick.
The manifest functions of the machine, by M. A. Calvert.
Boss Tweed's New York, by S. Mandelbaum.
The Urban politician as entrepreneur, by J. A. Tarr.
The periphery versus the center, by R. C. Wade.
Boss Cox's Cincinnati, by Z. L. Miller.
Boss Murphy and progressive reform, by J. J. Huthmacher.
The reformer as machine politician, by M. G. Holli.
The settlement worker versus the ward boss, by A. F. Davis.
Business elite and the centralization of decision-making, by S. P. Hays.
Businessmen and the city commission and manager movements, by J. Weinstein.
Socialism in Schenectady, by L. H. Pink.
Victor L. Berger, Socialist boss of Milwaukee, by D. A. Shannon.
The Pittsburgh Renaissance
an example of the reverse welfare state, by R. Lubove.
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