Power Failure: New York City Politics & Policy Since 1960

by Charles Brecher and Raymond D. Horton

Book Overview

New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex in the nation, perhaps in the world. Its annual operating budget is now a staggering $29 billion a year, plus it has a capital budget of $4 billion more. The city and its various agencies employ approximately 360,000 full-time workers. The Office of the Mayor alone employs some 1,600 people (and spends some $135 million). And the Police Department boasts a small army of over 25,000...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195044274
• ISBN13: 9780195044270
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction to New york City politics

This book is absolutely indispensable to anyone who is doing scholarly work on new York city politics and government. It is written in a very accessible style, lively yet informative. The book is nearly encyclopedic in its scope. The best chapters have to do with campaign financing and municipal elections.