This module is a mixture of personalities, political structures and institutions, politics and the “making of a policy system”. The policy system itself won’t emerge
Category: Book 1
4. Penn Moves to America: Penn as Planner, Religious Holy Experiment as a Real Estate Development and Budding Quaker Capitalism
Penn (and his successors) were endowed with the powers of a sole proprietary colony, which as far as Charles II expected would include the recreation
3. the Quaker Political Culture as Applied to Pennsylvania: Values, Beliefs, and Political Structures
From our intro Pennsylvania module, it is apparent that Quakers and Quakerism, a religion, was responsible for the founding of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. That will
2. Pennsylvania Settlement Pattern (Migration, Time, Geography) and Political Culture
So what do you, the reader, know about Pennsylvania/Philadelphia’colonial political/economic development? Well it was a colony (actually Province in the British lexicon) created by William
Boss Tweed and New York
New York City: The obvious centerpiece of ethnic-based machines is New York City’s Tammany Hall—and the obvious example of typical ethnic machine behavior is Boss
the First Political Machines: Philadelphia Gas House Gang 1841 and the Pennsylvania State House Gang–An Early Version
Political Machines: Monkey Wrench or People-Based Economic Development Mention the words “political machine” and visions dance in one’s head of Tammany Hall, the Tweed
Ron W. Coan 