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The Politics Of Memorialization: Creating A Holocaust Memorial Museum In New York City, Rochelle G. Saidel
The Politics Of Memorialization: Creating A Holocaust Memorial Museum In New York City, Rochelle G. Saidel
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This study of how government intervention affects the implementation of a project of an interest group analyzes the political processes of the 45 year impasse in completing a major Holocaust memorial in New York City. Using as a case study the 1981-1991 effort to create such a project, the study develops a new concept for analyzing long-term public-private projects. This study develops and uses a so-called Mutagon to analyze the complicated and changing political coalition that has endeavored for ten years to create a Holocaust museum.
The Mutagon concept augments existing interest group theories, (e.g., iron triangle and issue network …