Governing New York City: Politics in the Metropolis

Cover
Title page, Copyright page
Contents
Preface
I. Birth and Growth of the Greater City
II. The Stakes and Prizes of the City's Politics
III. Contestants for the Prizes of the City's Politics
IV. Rules of the Contest
V. The Structure and Operation of Nominating Machinery
VI. Elections
VII. Appointments and Removals
VIII. Administrators of the Line Agencies
IX. Officials of Special Authorities
X. Leaders of the Overhead Agencies
XI. The Leaders of the Organized City Bureaucracies
XII. Party Leaders and Governmental Decisions
XIII. Nongovernmental Groups and Governmental Action
XIV. Courts and Politics
XV. Officials of Other Governments in the City's Political Process
XVI. The Council
XVII. The Board of Estimate
XVIII. The Mayor
XIX. Risks, Rewards, and Remedies
A. Memoirs, Biographies, and Autobiographies of Prominent New Yorkers
B. Sources of Information About New York City
C. Governmental Organization Within the City of New York, by Robert H. Connery
Index