Lachman Failed State

Dysfunction and Corruption in an American Statehouse
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6575-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Excelsior Editions

Shines a light on the dark corners of New York’s legislature and points the way to much-needed reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lachman, Seymour P.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Polner, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. When Poetry Met Prose

2. Son of Immigrant Parents

3. A Can of Worms

4. Like a Meeting of the Supreme Soviet

5. In a Lofty Place

6. The Great Gerrymander

7. Lobbyists and Legislators Gone Wild

8. The Overcoat Development Corporation

9. Other People’s Money

10. The Road to Reforming a Failed State

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Seymour P. Lachman is the Founding Director of the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College, where he is also Dean Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus. A Democrat from Brooklyn, he served in the New York State Senate from 1996 through 2004 and is the author of Mr. New York: Lew Rudin and His Love for the City. Robert Polner is a Public Affairs Officer at New York University, and while working on this book was also Senior Research Fellow for the Carey Institute. Together Lachman and Polner are the coauthors of The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975, also published by SUNY Press.