Plutocracy And Politics In New York City

Author : Gabriel A. Almond
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040579107

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Plutocracy And Politics In New York City by Gabriel A. Almond Pdf

This study of plutocracy and politics in New York City in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries poses the following central questions: What have been the consequences of the relatively rapid democratization in America for activities and attitudes of the wealthy classes and what transformations have occurred in the political and social attitudes of the wealthier classes as a result of the increasing lower-class pressures? Gabriel Almond conducted the research for his University of Chicago dissertation in 1935–1936 in New York City. The Great Depression supplied the background events and themes.

Author : Gabriel Almond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012172537

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Plutocracy and Politics in New York City by Gabriel Almond Pdf

Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101595947

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Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland Pdf

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.

Author : Wallace Sayre,Herbert Kaufman
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1960-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610446860

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Governing New York City by Wallace Sayre,Herbert Kaufman Pdf

This widely acclaimed study of political power in a metropolitan community portrays the political system in its entirety and in balance—and retains much of the drama, the excitement, and the special style of New York City. It discusses the stakes and rules of the city's politics, and the individuals, groups, and official agencies influencing government action.

Author : Edward V. Schneier,Antoinette Pole,Anthony Maniscalco
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501767296

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New York Politics by Edward V. Schneier,Antoinette Pole,Anthony Maniscalco Pdf

New York Politics examines aspects of state government that are often hidden in the secret sessions of the parties' legislative conferences: the closed-door budget; a complicated array of opaque agencies, authorities, and local governments; and a campaign finance system that lacks transparency. New York is unique among the American states in the existence of regional and demographic divisions, making it difficult to govern. Edward V. Schneier, Antoinette Pole, and Anthony Maniscalco bring clarity and understanding to the politics of the Empire State. This third edition of the leading textbook on New York politics combines historical, legal, statistical, and journalistic sources with the candid perspectives of legislators, lobbyists, and other public officials. Critical updates and new information include an analysis of the rise and fall of Governor Andrew Cuomo, coverage of growing demographic diversity in New York State and its government, and the impact of unified government when the legislature and executive branch are both controlled by the Democratic Party.

Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521524105

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The Monied Metropolis by Sven Beckert Pdf

This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.

Author : Ralf Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351873079

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Who Ran the Cities? by Ralf Roth Pdf

The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a detailed examination of the relationship between urban elites and the exercise of 'power', bringing together economic, social and cultural history with the political history of power resources and decision-making. The volume challenges common perceptions of a monolithic urban elite by looking at specific case studies. Collectively these essays provide a more sophisticated view of the exercise of urban power as the negotiation of various elite groups defined by their economic, social, political or cultural privilege. To contribute to this complex account of the history of cities, elites, and their influence, the collection applies a range of methodological approaches to studying European and American cities, as well as the wider world.

Author : Edward Pessen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412833325

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Riches, Class and Power by Edward Pessen Pdf

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226426730

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City Trenches by Ira Katznelson Pdf

In City Trenches, Ira Katznelson looks at an important phenomenon of the sixties—the resurgence of community activism—and explains its sources, challenges, and failure. Katznelson argues that the American working class perceives workplace politics and community politics as separate and distinct spheres, a perception that defeats attempts to address grievances or raise demands that break the rules of local politics or of bread-and-butter unionism. He supports his thesis with an absorbing case study of Washington Heights-Inwood, a multiethnic working-class community in Manhattan.

Author : Giovanni Barbieri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793603456

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The Fifth Cleavage by Giovanni Barbieri Pdf

The Fifth Cleavage: Genealogy of the Populist Ideology proposes an in-depth analysis of populism, as one of the central phenomena in the contemporary public and political debate. In particular, this study aims to investigate the causes of the emergence of populism and its possible effects on the political system and on the democratic institutions. The central thesis of the book is that populism is originated by a cleavage between two opposite groups – the people and the elite – which appeared for the first time soon after the democratic revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries. This cleavage is not constantly active; but it tends to reactivate itself only under certain circumstances, when certain critical junctures occur, thus giving rise to different “waves” of populism. When the “populist cleavage” is active, the other lines of division and conflict (of class, of religion, etc.) lose their relevance. What are the features of this cleavage? What kind of relationship does it have with the well-known traditional cleavages (capital-labor, state-church, urban-rural, center-periphery)? What are the characteristics of the recent “wave” of populism? And what are its effects on the functioning of democracy? These are the main questions to which this book is devoted.

Author : Richard L. Hasen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300216745

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Plutocrats United by Richard L. Hasen Pdf

Campaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right protests that the real aim of campaign limits is to suppress political activity and protect incumbents. Meanwhile, money flows freely on both sides. In Plutocrats United, Richard Hasen argues that both left and right avoid the key issue of the new Citizens United era: balancing political inequality with free speech. The Supreme Court has long held that corruption and its appearance are the only reasons to constitutionally restrict campaign funds. Progressives often agree but have a much broader view of corruption. Hasen argues for a new focus and way forward: if the government is to ensure robust political debate, the Supreme Court should allow limits on money in politics to prevent those with great economic power from distorting the political process.

Author : Gabriel Abraham Almond
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588260801

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Ventures in Political Science by Gabriel Abraham Almond Pdf

A prominent political scientist in American academia throughout the second half of the 20th century, Almond gathers 11 essays he wrote mostly during the 1990s. They explore topics he finds suitable for an octogenarian: historical narrative about the political science discipline, reflections about democracy and democratization, and his own education and early career. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Steve Fraser,Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674017471

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Ruling America by Steve Fraser,Gary Gerstle Pdf

Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people? In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling economic elites have shaped our national experience. They explore how elites came into existence, how they established their dominance over public affairs, and how their rule came to an end. The contributors analyze the elite coalition that led the Revolution and then examine the antebellum planters of the South and the merchant patricians of the North. Later chapters vividly portray the Gilded Age "robber barons," the great finance capitalists in the age of J. P. Morgan, and the foreign-policy "Establishment" of the post-World War II years. The book concludes with a dissection of the corporate-led counter-revolution against the New Deal characteristic of the Reagan and Bush era. Rarely in the last half-century has one book afforded such a comprehensive look at the ways elite wealth and power have influenced the American experiment with democracy. At a time when the distribution of wealth and power has never been more unequal, Ruling America is of urgent contemporary relevance.

Author : Andrew H. Wedeman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801464744

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Double Paradox by Andrew H. Wedeman Pdf

According to conventional wisdom, rising corruption reduces economic growth. And yet, between 1978 and 2010, even as officials were looting state coffers, extorting bribes, raking in kickbacks, and scraping off rents at unprecedented rates, the Chinese economy grew at an average annual rate of 9 percent. In Double Paradox, Andrew Wedeman seeks to explain why the Chinese economy performed so well despite widespread corruption at almost kleptocratic levels. Wedeman finds that the Chinese economy was able to survive predatory corruption because corruption did not explode until after economic reforms had unleashed dynamic growth. To a considerable extent corruption was also a by-product of the transfer of undervalued assets from the state to the emerging private and corporate sectors and a scramble to capture the windfall profits created by their transfer. Perhaps most critically, an anti-corruption campaign, however flawed, has proved sufficient to prevent corruption from spiraling out of control. Drawing on more than three decades of data from China—as well as examples of the interplay between corruption and growth in South Korea, Taiwan, Equatorial Guinea, and other nations in Africa and the Caribbean—Wedeman cautions that rapid growth requires not only ongoing and improved anticorruption efforts but also consolidated and strengthened property rights.

Author : Elisabeth S. Clemens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226670836

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Civic Gifts by Elisabeth S. Clemens Pdf

In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among settlers and, eventually, citizens? Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of benevolence and philanthropy, practices of gift-giving and reciprocity that coexisted uneasily with the self-sufficient independence expected of liberal citizens Civic Gifts focuses on the power of gifts not only to mobilize communities throughout US history, but also to create new forms of solidarity among strangers. Clemens makes clear how, from the early Republic through the Second World War, reciprocity was an important tool for eliciting both the commitments and the capacities needed to face natural disasters, economic crises, and unprecedented national challenges. Encompassing a range of endeavors from the mobilized voluntarism of the Civil War, through Community Chests and the Red Cross to the FDR-driven rise of the March of Dimes, Clemens shows how voluntary efforts were repeatedly articulated with government projects. The legacy of these efforts is a state co-constituted with, as much as constrained by, civil society.