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A Phoenix in the Ashes : The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics / John Hull Mollenkopf.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 26 tables 7 mapsContent type:
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  • 9780691228204
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.9747/1 20
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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.

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