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machine politics  

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  • Machine politics refers to politics in which votes are exchanged for discrete benefits. Under machine politics, voting is driven by a direct exchange between voter and political candidate rather than by opinion or ideology. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Machine Politics]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/machine_politics

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