Political Crisis. Fiscal Crisis : : The Collapse and Revival of New York City / / Martin Shefter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Shefter, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

Attempts to account for the eruption of urban fiscal crises and to assess their significance, with a special focus on New York City's fiscal and political crises.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface to the Morningside Edition
• Introduction to the Paperback Edition: New York’s Fiscal Crisis, Municipal Corruption, and the Koch Phenomenon
• Introduction: The Politics of Urban Fiscal Collapse and Revival
• Part I. Machine Politics, Reform Movements, and Urban Fiscal Crises
• 1. The Political Economy of Urban Fiscal Crises
• 2. Fiscal Crises and the Machine/Reform Dialectic
• Part II. The Political Sources of New York City’s Fiscal Crisis
• 3. The Reform Attack on the Pluralist Regime
• 4. Reform and Accommodation
• 5. Sources of the Fiscal Crisis
• Part III. The Political Consequences of New York City’s Fiscal Crisis
• 6. The Fiscal Crisis and Its Budgetary Consequences
• 7. The Fiscal Crisis and the Reorganization of New York City Politics
• 8. Fiscal Politics in New York City: Past, Present, and Future
• Part IV. The Political Implications of Urban Fiscal Crises
• 9. Can Cities Be Democratically Governed?
• Notes
• Index