A Phoenix in the Ashes : The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics /
Mollenkopf, John Hull
A Phoenix in the Ashes : The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics / John Hull Mollenkopf. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 26 tables 7 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A PHOENIX IN THE ASHES -- One Introduction -- Two How to Study Urban Political Power -- Three The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City -- Four The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics -- Five Forging the Koch Coalition -- Six The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why -- Seven The Fall of the Koch Coalition -- Eight The Koch Era in Perspective -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691228204
10.1515/9780691228204 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
AIDS epidemic. American Express. Bear Stearns. Bedford-Stuyvesant. Bronx. Canarsie. Charter Revision Commission. Citizens Budget Commission. Dominicans. East Harlem. Fire Department. Harlem. Helmsley Palace. Jamaicans. Latinos. accommodation. accounting firms. advertising agencies. antipoverty programs. antiwar movement. appointments. baby boom professionals. back-office operations. black mayors. blue-collar workers. building codes. campaign financing. campaign spending. central business districts. citizenship. community corporations. conservatives. death penalty. debt or borrowing. deindustrialization. development. economic competitiveness. education. electoral exclusion theory. ethnic competition. feminists. foundations. freight transport. garment industry. gentrification. governing coalition. homeless. imperatives. inequalities. intergovernmental transfers. judicial appointments. labor costs. labor force participation. land-use regulation. law firms and lawyers. loft-manufacturing areas. machine politics.
320.9747/1
A Phoenix in the Ashes : The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics / John Hull Mollenkopf. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 26 tables 7 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A PHOENIX IN THE ASHES -- One Introduction -- Two How to Study Urban Political Power -- Three The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City -- Four The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics -- Five Forging the Koch Coalition -- Six The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why -- Seven The Fall of the Koch Coalition -- Eight The Koch Era in Perspective -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691228204
10.1515/9780691228204 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
AIDS epidemic. American Express. Bear Stearns. Bedford-Stuyvesant. Bronx. Canarsie. Charter Revision Commission. Citizens Budget Commission. Dominicans. East Harlem. Fire Department. Harlem. Helmsley Palace. Jamaicans. Latinos. accommodation. accounting firms. advertising agencies. antipoverty programs. antiwar movement. appointments. baby boom professionals. back-office operations. black mayors. blue-collar workers. building codes. campaign financing. campaign spending. central business districts. citizenship. community corporations. conservatives. death penalty. debt or borrowing. deindustrialization. development. economic competitiveness. education. electoral exclusion theory. ethnic competition. feminists. foundations. freight transport. garment industry. gentrification. governing coalition. homeless. imperatives. inequalities. intergovernmental transfers. judicial appointments. labor costs. labor force participation. land-use regulation. law firms and lawyers. loft-manufacturing areas. machine politics.
320.9747/1