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The City's Losing Clout

Gerald Benjamin, Gary King. 1979. "The City's Losing Clout". New York Times, CXXVIII , 44,269 , Pp. A17.

Abstract

New York City is a modern “rotten borough,” not because of population decline, but because of its massive and continuing fall-off in voter participation. New York City’s political base is more apparent than real.