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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mollenkopf, John Hull,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 26 tables 7 maps

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.

Table of 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