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Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters 2/e Karl H. Clauset often considered the father ofPolitical machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth century urban politics, political machines mobilized urban voters by providing services in exchange for voters' support of a party or candidate. Allswang examines four machines and five urban bosses over the course of a century. He argues that efforts to extract a meaningful general theory from the American experience of