This paper compared the roles of these two organizations in public policy and opinion Well written Compare and contrast political machines and the reform movement in terms of their views of the purposes of politics and government, the role of the average citizen in public affairs, and the appropriate processes of decision making. Urban machines and the reform movement have radically different perceptions of how a local (city) government is supposed to function and be …
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…and council have always been in the area of power balance and mutual influence between them, the average citizen's only hope was in fact an insurgency. Thus, we can see quite clearly that machines were effective in policy making. However, issues were raised on whether their methods were acceptable in an organized community. These issues were solved with the emergence of the reformers. But now it was the effectiveness of the system that was challenged.