John Hull Mollenkopf

A Phoenix in the Ashes

The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780691036731
• ISBN-10: 069103673X
• Artikelnr.: 21055502

Autorenporträt

John Hull Mollenkopf With a new afterword by the author

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

[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....