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Both the public and academics have largely forgotten three-term mayor Robert F. Wagner (1954–1965). However, his administration institutionalized New York liberalism and created the modern political system. Robert Wagner was one of the most influential mayors in the city’s history.
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Wagner is characterized as a “broker” mayor in Douglas Yates’ book, The Ungovernable City: The Politics of Urban Problems and Policy Making (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977).
Wallace Sayre and Herbert Kaufman, Governing New York (New York: Russell Sage, 1960).
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Rudy Giuliani, [Fred Siegel and Harry Siegel, The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life (New York: Encounter Books, 2006
Julian Brash, Bloomberg’s New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City (Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2012)].
On the concept of “path dependence” in political science, see: Paul Pierson, “Path Dependence, Increasing Returns, and the Study of Politics,” American Political Science Review, 94:2, (June 2000), 251–267.
Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol, State and Party in Americas New Deal (Madison: University of Winconsin Press, 1995).
I borrow the term “hidden-hand” from Fred Greenslein’s revisionist description of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency in The Hidden Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader, 2nd Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1984).
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Flanagan, R.M. (2015). Introduction: Robert F. Wagner, the Forgotten Mayor. In: Robert Wagner and the Rise of New York City’s Plebiscitary Mayoralty: The Tamer of the Tammany Tiger. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400871_1
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