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This is a strange description. "public servants, students, activists, and leaders" So, regular adult citizens are...the bulk of the actual 'public' are part of the problem to be solved by the 4 addressed constituencies?
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Well yes, in America prior to the progressive movement (Wilson, TR etc) the idea of government planning was largely anathema here from the end of the era of canal building on the early 19th C to the 1910s. Went along with the gold standard, limited executive power & gilded age
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Yes, Tammany Hall was the greatest, earliest one but it was all across the north and western states. Both parties South with segregation and one-party rule was its own system and was shut out of the presidency by informal agreement made in Compromise of 1877
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It varies. Some states are a lot cleaner than others. Some machines died out in the 30’s and 40’s. Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Nebraska etc different world from NY, Illinois, NJ, Louisiana
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