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Looking closely at New York City’s political development since the 1970s, three “political orders”-conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism-emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the intercurrent impact of these orders has created a constant battle for power. Weaver brings these clashes to the fore by showing how New York City politics has been shaped by these conflicting orders. He examines the transformation of the city’s political economy in the aftermath of the 1975 fiscal crisis through neoliberal real estate development and privatization, the conservative rise of law-and-order politics in the 1970s to 1990s, and the efforts of the city’s egalitarians to respond to each of these shifts through social movements such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City belies glib assumptions about the city’s liberal character. Weaver reveals the metropolis not as a homogenous political whole, but as a site in which the victories and defeats of rival political forces change the terms of local citizenship for the millions of residents who call the city home. In the series Political Lessons from American Cities

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""In this compact, crisply written book, Weaver advances a capacious theory for understanding urban political development, and with it delivers a fresh analysis of the much-studied New York case.... [T]heoretically pathbreaking.... By showing the push-and-pull among political orders, his study illuminates the contradictions and contingencies in the city's political development and thus makes a compelling case for his multiple political orders theory.""--Urban Affairs Review ""Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City is a fascinating and thought-provoking synthesis of the competing political orders in New York City. With its focus on policing as a case in point, it is especially relevant as America's cities face a second Trump presidency and New York City approaches a decisive mayoral election.""--John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ""[A]n important work on the interconnections of ideology, political economy, and urban policy. New York continues to play a central part in the life of the American nation, and it reflects and affects trends throughout the country. Timothy Weaver has given us an intriguing analysis of influences on policy in the nation's economic capital.""--Ethnic and Racial Studies ""Timothy Weaver, a trailblazer in the field of urban politics, delivers a powerful analysis of the intricate interplay between politics and policy in New York City. The demonstration of the 'intercurrence' of neoliberal and conservative political orders is innovative and dramatically refines our understanding of the complex ideological contours of the political development of New York City. His applications are insightful, and his theoretical innovations are novel.""--Michael Javen Fortner, Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, and coeditor of Urban Citizenship and American Democracy

""Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City is a fascinating and thought-provoking synthesis of the competing political orders in New York City. With its focus on policing as a case in point, it is especially relevant as America's cities face a second Trump presidency and New York City approaches a decisive mayoral election.""--John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ""[A]n important work on the interconnections of ideology, political economy, and urban policy. New York continues to play a central part in the life of the American nation, and it reflects and affects trends throughout the country. Timothy Weaver has given us an intriguing analysis of influences on policy in the nation's economic capital.""--Ethnic and Racial Studies ""Timothy Weaver, a trailblazer in the field of urban politics, delivers a powerful analysis of the intricate interplay between politics and policy in New York City. The demonstration of the 'intercurrence' of neoliberal and conservative political orders is innovative and dramatically refines our understanding of the complex ideological contours of the political development of New York City. His applications are insightful, and his theoretical innovations are novel.""--Michael Javen Fortner, Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, and coeditor of Urban Citizenship and American Democracy

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Timothy P.R. Weaver is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom and coeditor of How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development.

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