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Plutocracy And Politics In New York City (Urban Policy Challenges)
Plutocracy And Politics In New York City - Urban Policy Challenges Author:Gabriel A. Almond This study of plutocracy and politics in New York City in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries poses the following central questions: What have been the consequences of the relatively rapid democratization in America for activities and attitudes of the wealthy classes and what transformations have occurred in the political and social att... more »itudes of the wealthier classes as a result of the increasing lower-class pressures? Gabriel Almond conducted the research for his University of Chicago dissertation in 1935?1936 in New York City. The Great Depression supplied the background events and themes.« less