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Word: beholdenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Austin Ranney, senior political scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, finds immense irony in this development. "One of the great reasons for reform from the very beginning was to get away from patronage, so delegates would not be beholden to the old bosses," he says. Ranney now fears that all of the electoral reforms have not prevented the beholden of a different kind from entering through a "back door" of the convention. Since there are no longer power centers like Chicago's late Mayor Richard Daley, and only 69 Senators, Governors and members of the House were delegates this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Delegates from Big Brother | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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