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The Donegal Mafia : an Irish political machine / Paul Martin Sacks.

By: Sacks, Paul M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976Description: xi, 241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0300020201.Subject(s): Fianna Fáil | Political parties -- Ireland -- Donegal (County) | Donegal (Ireland : County) -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 329.0211
Contents:
Party machines and politics at the periphery -- Sources of the machine: the postnationalist political culture and its contexts -- The emergence of a centralized machine -- The sinews of power: the bases of party cohesion -- Formal party structure -- Party cells and village society: party structure and leadership in the communities -- The Bailiwick system and the 1969 election -- Sources of strain in the Bailiwick system -- Power and party structure -- The Mafia collapses: the gun-running scandal and Donegal politics -- Beyond Blaney's demise: some views on the Donegal machine.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 329.0211 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00046882
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Party machines and politics at the periphery -- Sources of the machine: the postnationalist political culture and its contexts -- The emergence of a centralized machine -- The sinews of power: the bases of party cohesion -- Formal party structure -- Party cells and village society: party structure and leadership in the communities -- The Bailiwick system and the 1969 election -- Sources of strain in the Bailiwick system -- Power and party structure -- The Mafia collapses: the gun-running scandal and Donegal politics -- Beyond Blaney's demise: some views on the Donegal machine.