books.google.com - This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and economic resources. Examples of bossism include Old Corruption in eighteenth-century England, urban political machines in the United States, caciques in...http://books.google.com/books/about/Capital_Coercion_and_Crime.html?id=0it4S_WGapIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCapital, Coercion, and Crime