machine politics
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During the Progressive Era, when party machine politics dominated, judicial elections were put forward as a reform to promote democratic accountability because they broke up concentrations of power and redistributed it to the people.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
He also cut his teeth in the bare-knuckled machine politics of Monroe County, Kentucky, and knew how to win allies, according to those who knew him.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
He has instead operated in a world in which so much is based on machine politics and what Marie Brenner, the journalist, once described as New York’s “favor economy.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Jealous was, of course, not a blameless casualty of strategic machine politics.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
But the development of party spirit and machine politics brought with it a great change.
From The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization by Orth, Samuel Peter
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