| Lincoln Steffens's magnificent book, The Shame of the Cities, denounced the bossism and corruption of early twentieth-century American cities. |
| To say that people ought not run and that people ought to get out of this race is bossism that belongs in the other party. |
| The struggle between bossism and reform never ends. |
| Nigeria's PDP doesn't have similar grass roots or internal democratic mechanisms, but at least on this one issue, its factionalism and local bossism have had a similar effect. |
| In all cases a closer involvement with state agencies has left the organizations exposed to clientelist controls and political bossism. |
| This has been achieved without surrender of independent personality, without regimentation, dictatorship or government bossism. |
