A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics - Rilegato

Mollenkopf, John H.

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ISBN 10: 0691078548 ISBN 13: 9780691078540

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven, deal-oriented, economic boom of the Reagan era. Exploring the interplay between social structural change and political power during this period, John Mollenkopf asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative mayor who promoted real estate development and belittled minority activists. Through a careful analysis of voting patterns, political strategies of various interest groups, and policy trends, he explains how Mayor Edward Koch created a powerful political coalition and why it ultimately failed.
Koch abandoned his original electoral base in order to appeal to white ethnics apprehensive about losing their dominant position and to capitalize on tensions between black and Latino populations. He also forged alliances with the regular Democratic organizations and the real estate development industry. In examining how this Democratic mayor managed the differences of interest between his electoral base and his allies in government, Mollenkopf reveals much about the creation and exercise of power in the post-industrial city and about the future of urban liberalism.

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Recensione

"[A] first-rate study of the ascendancy and collapse of the Koch coalition.... Mollenkopf traces the arabesque of race, class, ethnicity, labor, religion, and policy payoffs ... that defined politics in what he terms a 'post-industrial' city.... Essential for understanding today's bitter Big Apple social politics."--Choice

Contenuti

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	3
2	How to Study Urban Political Power	23
3	The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City	44
4	The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics	69
5	Forging the Koch Coalition	100
6	The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why	129
7	The Fall of the Koch Coalition	165
8	The Koch Era in Perspective	190
	Afterword	209
	Notes	229
	References	271
	Index	289

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691078548
• ISBN 13: 9780691078540
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 285
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile