Bossism

were distinct and party feeling was strong, party machinery hardly had an existence; "bossism" was unknown, voting by sections was unheard of. ❋ Jabez Lamar Monroe (1901)

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Educated in french-speaking Canada and a member of the the influential Brazilian baptist church that was founded with US assistance during the slave trade, Carneiro is the scion of an old school political family that is identified with the bossism laissez-faire political machine implemented by legendary strongman Antonio Carlos Magalhes during the 1950s, an era that Brazilians call Carlismo. ❋ Eric Ehrmann (2012)

It is the ultimate in Tammany Hall-style political bossism -- the political earmark that dwarfs all others. ❋ Ernest Istook (2011)

It's just a remake of party bossism and needs to go. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despised by reformers, including those within his own party who resented his control, Lorimer practiced a style of politics that critics called "Lorimerism" or "bossism." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The whole idea of "super-delegates" is a euphemism for party bossism determining who is nominated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They noted that the initial bossism was replaced by informal cliques, organized pluralism, bifactionalism, multifactionalism, and amorphous leadership. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

La Follette, who had been leading or led a charge against railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hmmm… Rad Geek, what do you plan to do with those of us who positively want to be subject to “bossism” and “managerialism”? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of course, in the case of big companies like General Motors, workers still have the option of taking over in the sense of gaining effective or de jure control through the creative use of agitation, wildcat organizing, nonviolent direct action, etc., in such a way as to make make continued bossism less and less economically unsustainable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My reasons here are basically libertarian ones: I view what male johns are doing to be unethical, and I view pimps, as a class, as really detestable — all the worst of exploitative bossism, multiplied by violent male supremacy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I do mean, however, that there is no reason to point to Australia as a wonder-worker of woman's accomplishment, since her influence has been unable to free labor from the thraldom of political bossism. ❋ Unknown (2006)