| List of Tables and Figures | |
| Preface | |
| Ch. 1 | Political Parties and States | 3 |
| Pt. I | Party and Patronage in Europe and America | 19 |
| Ch. 2 | Patronage and Its Opponents: A Theory and Some European Cases | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | Party, Bureaucracy, and Political Change in the United States | 61 |
| Pt. II | Economic Interests and Political Organization in the United States | 99 |
| Ch. 4 | Trade Unions and Political Machines: The Organization and Disorganization of the American Working Class | 101 |
| Ch. 5 | Regional Receptivity to Reform in the United States | 169 |
| Pt. III | Political Parties and Political Control | 195 |
| Ch. 6 | Political Incorporation and Political Extrusion: Party Politics and Social Forces in Postwar New York | 197 |
| Ch. 7 | New York City's Fiscal Crisis: Countering the Politics of Mass Mobilization | 233 |
| Notes | 259 |
| Author Index | 293 |
| Subject Index | 297 |