POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tammany Hall
23 Mar 2016
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Amateurs: the mix of professionals and amateurs varies across parties and time. For example, political machines, like tammany hall, depended heavily on professionals. Many parties today, however, rely upon amateurs: motives for participating in the political process vary between professionals and amateurs, amateurs used to get patronage to work for party machines. When party machines were dissolved in the beginning of the 20th century, however, amateurs became more ideologically motivated and primarily hoped to get certain policies enacted. Citizens choose to participate in party activities because they want certain policies to be enacted by the government: these mixes of motivations vary between times and people. For example, political machines offered mostly material incentives in the late 180s. Once the party machines were dismantled at the beginning of the 20th century, however, party activists become more motivated by purposive incentives, resulting in a rise of amateurs.
