"An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible: how could the capital of...

Adversarial relations? : business and politics in twentieth-century America / Richard R.. John -- Trade associations, state building, and the Sherman Act : the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 / Laura Phillips Sawyer -- Toward a civic welfare state : business and city building in the 1920s /...

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This essay explores how three components of the new political history - research on the motivations behind the rise of conservatism, the discovery of the nineteenth-century state, and arguments about the particularities of public policy - can offer useful analytical tools for political scientists