Robert Wagner and the Rise of New York City?s Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger
The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger
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Product details:
- Edition number 2015
- Publisher Palgrave Pivot
- Date of Publication 12 December 2014
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9781137406217
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages135 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 2863 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black & white 0
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Short description:
Robert Wagner was New York City's true New Deal mayor, killed Tammany Hall. The world Wagner shaped delivers municipal services efficiently at the cost of local democracy. The story of Wagner's mayoralty will be of interest to anyone who cares about New York City, local democracy and the debate about the legacy of the City's important leaders.
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Robert Wagner was New York City's true New Deal mayor, killed Tammany Hall. The world Wagner shaped delivers municipal services efficiently at the cost of local democracy. The story of Wagner's mayoralty will be of interest to anyone who cares about New York City, local democracy and the debate about the legacy of the City's important leaders.
"Richard Flanagan has illuminated a dimension of the city's political history and found resonance in mayoral governance today. He shows that Robert Wagner was much more than a gray flannel prelude to the Lindsay years." - Jeffrey Kroessler, John Jay College, USA, author of New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of a Great Metropolis (2002)
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1. Introduction: Robert F. Wagner, the Forgotten Mayor 2. The Concept of the 'Plebiscitary Mayoralty' i. The Incomplete New Deal in New York 3. Mayor Robert F. Wagner and the Unfinished Business of the New Deal i. Wagner and Organized Labor ii. Wagner and the Welfare State iii. Wagner and Fiscal Policy 4. The Break: The Fight for Charter Reform and the 1961 Mayoral Election i. Wagner, the Democratic Party and the 1961 Mayoral Campaign 5. The New Wagner Mayoralty and the Shaping of Modern New York 6. In the Shadow of Wagner: Plebiscitary Politics in New York City i. The Institutional Mayoralty ii. The Civic Mayoralty iii. The de Blasio Moment
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Robert Wagner and the Rise of New York City?s Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger
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