John Hull Mollenkopf is Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

"[A] first-rate study of the ascendancy and collapse of the Koch coalition... Mollenkopf traces the arabesque of race, class, ethnicity, labor, religion, and policy payoffs ... that defined politics in what he terms a 'post-industrial' city... Essential for understanding today's bitter Big Apple social politics."--Choice

• Acknowledgments1Introduction32How to Study Urban Political Power233The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City444The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics695Forging the Koch Coalition1006The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why1297The Fall of the Koch Coalition1658The Koch Era in Perspective190Afterword209Notes229References271Index289

John Hull Mollenkopf is Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

"[A] first-rate study of the ascendancy and collapse of the Koch coalition... Mollenkopf traces the arabesque of race, class, ethnicity, labor, religion, and policy payoffs ... that defined politics in what he terms a 'post-industrial' city... Essential for understanding today's bitter Big Apple social politics."--Choice

• Acknowledgments1Introduction32How to Study Urban Political Power233The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City444The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics695Forging the Koch Coalition1006The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why1297The Fall of the Koch Coalition1658The Koch Era in Perspective190Afterword209Notes229References271Index289

John Hull Mollenkopf is Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

"[A] first-rate study of the ascendancy and collapse of the Koch coalition... Mollenkopf traces the arabesque of race, class, ethnicity, labor, religion, and policy payoffs ... that defined politics in what he terms a 'post-industrial' city... Essential for understanding today's bitter Big Apple social politics."--Choice

• Acknowledgments1Introduction32How to Study Urban Political Power233The Postindustrial Transformation of New York City444The Rules of the Game in New York City Politics695Forging the Koch Coalition1006The Exercise of Power - Who Got What and Why1297The Fall of the Koch Coalition1658The Koch Era in Perspective190Afterword209Notes229References271Index289