Max & Murphy: Mollenkopf, Scholar of the City, Says Competition Key to Healthier Democracy De Blasio Seeks

February 14, 2018

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Max & Murphy: Mollenkopf, Scholar of the City, Says Competition Key to Healthier Democracy De Blasio Seeks

City Limits, 2.14.18

"New York City politics is fascinating not only because it binds many interests together in intimate conflict," John Mollenkopf wrote in his 1994 book A Phoenix in the Ashes, "but because the stakes are so high." Mollenkopf is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology and the director of the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center.