Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1993
Publication Title
Urban Affairs Quarterly
Volume
28
Pages
526-543
Abstract
Machine politics in Chicago has been described as a successful example of exchange theory in which political party members received benefits in return for loyalty to the party. In 1988, Erie rejected the rainbow theory of machine politics, arguing that the Irish received the lion's share of political benefits while other white-ethnic groups, such as Poles, were given limited and often symbolic rewards. These authors show that Chicago's Poles were not fully incorporated into the rainbow of groups that benefited from and supported the machine. This led to a pattern of independence in voting and lends considerable support to Erie's supply-side model of machine politics.
Recommended Citation
Inglot, Tomasz and John P. Pelissero, "Ethnic Political Power in a Machine City: Chicago's Poles at Rainbow's End," Urban Affairs Quarterly Vol. 28 (June 1993): 526-543.
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