Follow the money
Subtitle: who controls New York City mayors?
By: Lynne A. Weikart.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781438425313; 9781438425320
Subjects: Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York; Corporate power -- New York (State) -- New York; New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theories about urban political power and financial elites; title: Laguardia and the Great Depression; title: The prelude to the 1975 fiscal crisis; title: Mayor Beame and the 1975 fiscal crisis; title: Mayor Ed Koch and the incessant fiscal crisis; title: Mayor David Dinkins and the 1989 fiscal crisis; title: Rudolph Giuliani and the ongoing fiscal crisis; title: Mayor Mike Bloomberg; title: after 9/11; title: Conclusions.