Abstract

OF MACHINES AND MEN: MAYOR DALEY IS ALIVE AND WELL IN N.Y.C

It is informed that New York City's corruption scandals are now in their second year. A borough president has committed suicide. A city official has been convicted of taking bribes next to the urinals of the best yuppie restaurants. A failed quack sex therapist has admitted to being a bagman. A Democratic Party leader has been revealed to be an intimate friend of a mobster who murdered a police officer. Since the age of television and , the rise of media consultants like David Garth, political scientists have been composing the epitaph for big-city political machines. But at least in New York the machine has proved to be durable and, adaptable. It elected Edward Koch as Mayor in 1977, and its alliance with City Hall is the principal cause of the present scandals.