bossism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bossism
    n 1: domination of a political organization by a party boss

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bossism \Boss"ism\, n.
   The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.
   [Slang, U. S.]
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "bossism":
      Machtpolitik, Realpolitik, Tammany Hall, arbitrariness,
      authoritarianism, authoritativeness, autocraticalness,
      career politics, confrontation politics, consensus politics,
      domineering, domineeringness, economics in action,
      empirical politics, imperativeness, imperiousness,
      kid-glove politics, lordliness, machine politics, magisterialness,
      magistrality, masterfulness, overbearance, overbearing,
      overbearingness, partisan politics, partisanism, peanut politics,
      peremptoriness, petty politics, politics, polity,
      pork-barrel politics, power politics, practical politics,
      pressure-group politics, reform politics, silk-stocking politics,
      tyrannicalness, ward politics

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