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Failed state : dysfunction and corruption in an American statehouse / by Seymour P. Lachman, with Robert Polner.
Material type:
TextSeries: Excelsior editionsPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781438465753
- 1438465750
- Three men in a room
- New York (State). Legislature -- Ethics
- New York (State). Legislature
- Political corruption -- New York (State)
- Power (Social sciences) -- New York (State)
- New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch
- Ethics
- Political corruption
- Politics and government
- Power (Social sciences)
- New York (State)
- Since 1951
- 328.747 23
- JK3474.7
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 When Poetry Met Prose; Chapter 2 Son of Immigrant Parents; Chapter 3 A Can of Worms; Chapter 4 Like a Meeting of the Supreme Soviet; Chapter 5 In a Lofty Place; Chapter 6 The Great Gerrymander; Chapter 7 Lobbyists and Legislators Gone Wild; Chapter 8 The Overcoat Development Corporation; Chapter 9 Other People's Money; Chapter 10 The Road to Reforming a Failed State; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.