Contents
Preface
Part One. Background and Setting
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
Part Two. Strategies of the Contestants: Efforts to Determine Who Gets Public Office and Employment
V. The Structure and Operation of Nominating Machinery
VI. Elections
VII. Appointments and Removals
Part Three. Strategies of the Contestants: Shaping Governmental Decisions
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
Part Four. Conclusions
XIX. Risks, Rewards, and Remedies
Appendices
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