Book chapter
The Education of Political Parties
Educated by Initiative, p.112
University of Michigan Press
11/12/2009
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11467.10
Abstract
Political parties represented one of Progressive reformers’ principal targets, second only to the problem of economic interests unduly swaying elected state officials. Many Progressives offered vociferous criticisms of how party bosses routinely disregarded public opinion. The “wishes” of the political machines, scholar William B. Munro noted bluntly in 1912, “do not usually run parallel to those of the electorate.”¹ John Shafroth, a reform-minded Democratic governor of Colorado, complained that rather than promoting the public good, party machines were doing the bidding of the “combinations of capital.”² Shafroth, California governor Hiram Johnson, and other reformist public officials routinely denounced the corruption
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Education of Political Parties
- Creators
- Daniel A. SmithCaroline J. Tolbert
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Educated by Initiative, p.112
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- DOI
- 10.3998/mpub.11467.10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/12/2009
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983989276102771
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