Prepared for Panel 30-3, Group Mobilization, Partisanship, Ideas, and Leadership: The Los Angeles and New YorkMayoral Elections of 2005,ʺ September 2, 2006 at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia

Like other old blue collar cities of the Northeast and Midwest, New York City and its surrounding metropolitan area have faced some serious headwinds from deindustrialization, disinvestment, racial succession, white flight, social and cultural conflict, and many other adverse force. Like many...