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A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics

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

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A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics 1994, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691036731

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A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691078540

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