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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 of the Reagan era. This book 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.

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"[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

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments1Introduction32How to Study Urban Political Power233The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City444The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics695Forging the Koch Coalition1006The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why1297The Fall of the Koch Coalition1658The Koch Era in Perspective190Afterword209Notes229References271Index289

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/09/1994
      ISBN13: 9780691036731, 978-0691036731
      ISBN10: 069103673X

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      Book Synopsis
      In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven of the Reagan era. This book 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.

      Trade Review
      "[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

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments1Introduction32How to Study Urban Political Power233The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City444The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics695Forging the Koch Coalition1006The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why1297The Fall of the Koch Coalition1658The Koch Era in Perspective190Afterword209Notes229References271Index289

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