Robert Wagner and the Rise of New York City’s Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger
Author:   Richard M. Flanagan
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9781137406217


Pages:   135
Publication Date:   12 December 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Richard M. Flanagan
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Pivot
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   2.863kg
ISBN:  

9781137406217


ISBN 10:   1137406216
Pages:   135
Publication Date:   12 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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"""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)"


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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Richard M. Flanagan is Associate Professor of Political Science at City College of New York, College of Staten Island, USA. He is the author of Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership (2004) and is principal investigator of the Staten Island Social Capital Community Benchmark Study, the first comprehensive study of social behavior in the borough using survey research techniques.

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