Urban Rural Conflict
Author : Harlan Hahn
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1971-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Harlan Hahn
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1971-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan A. Rodden
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1541644255
A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Many place exclusive blame on partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression. But as political scientist Jonathan A. Rodden demonstrates in Why Cities Lose, the left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography. In the late nineteenth century, support for the left began to cluster in cities among the industrial working class. Today, left-wing parties have become coalitions of diverse urban interest groups, from racial minorities to the creative class. These parties win big in urban districts but struggle to capture the suburban and rural seats necessary for legislative majorities. A bold new interpretation of today's urban-rural political conflict, Why Cities Lose also points to electoral reforms that could address the left's under-representation while reducing urban-rural polarization.
Author : John Wesley Bookwalter
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781019852774
An analysis of the social, economic, and political conflicts between rural and urban areas, with a focus on the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Wesley Bookwalter
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth B. Beesley
Publisher : Rural Development Institute
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Land use, Rural
ISBN : 1895397820
Author : Topher L. McDougal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019879259X
Why do some rebel insurgencies target cities as economic prey, whilst others are content to trade with them? This volume examines how the trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas differ in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier.
Author : Tim Bunnell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400754825
Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical perspectives from four Asian countries: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and includes a wealth of insights that both critique and expand popular notions of the rural-urban divide. The volume is relevant not just to Asian contexts but to social scientific research on population dynamics more generally. Rather than deploying a single study to chart national trends, three chapters on each country make possible much more complex perspectives. As a result, this volume does more than extend our understanding of the interplay between cities and hinterlands within Asia. It enhances our notions of rural/urban cleavages, connections and conflicts more generally, with data and analysis ready for application to other contexts. Of interest to diverse scholars across the social sciences and Asian studies, this work includes accounts ranging from rural youth real estate entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, India, to social development in Aceh province in Indonesia, devastated by the 2004 tsunami, to the relationship between urban space and commonly held notions of the supernatural in Thailand’s northern city of Chiang Mai.
Author : David Satterthwaite
Publisher : IIED
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 1843694352
Author : Charles W. Eagles
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082033622X
Historians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between urban and rural Americans erupted to intensify and influence political conflict in the decade. In Democracy Delayed, Charles W. Eagles uses the issue of congressional reapportionment to examine politics in the 1920s, in particular to test the urban-rural thesis. After the 1920 census, the United States Congress for the first time failed to reapportion the House of Representatives as required by the Constitution. The 1920 enumeration showed that for the first time more people lived in urban areas than in rural areas. During a decade-long stalemate, congressional debates over reapportionment legislation contained repeated examples of violence and hostility as rural representatives resisted acceding to increased urban interests. Eagles points out that previous studies employing the urban-rural theory use an abstract model borrowed from the social sciences. Eagles combines historiography, narrative political history, and legislative roll-call analysis to provide extensive concrete evidence and a more precise definition of the urban-rural interpretation.