Closing the urban-rural power divide : envisioning a United city-States of America / Thor Hogan.
Hogan, Thor, author.
2023
HT384.U5 H64 2023
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Title
Closing the urban-rural power divide : envisioning a United city-States of America / Thor Hogan.
Author
Hogan, Thor, author.
ISBN
9783031340635 (electronic bk.)
3031340639 (electronic bk.)
3031340620
9783031340628
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34063-5
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-34063-5 doi
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HT384.U5 H64 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.70973
Summary
This book proposes a radical reorganization of political and electoral power to address the current political imbalance between urban and rural populations in the United States. Hogan argues that, despite being smaller in population, a financialist-ruralist coalition has effectively used the Constitutionespecially equal representation in the Senateto create an anti-urban vetocracy. This political imbalance protects the interests of the financial elite and rural cultural conservatives, while effectively blocking urban interests, particularly regarding the adoption of a broad range of structural reforms and progressive policy preferences. By re-dividing many of the largest federated states into smaller city-states, the book posits, the United States would reduce the ability of non-urban interests to control the Senate. This would allow an empowered urbanite alliance to pass the forward-looking legislation the nation needs to remain internationally competitive in the coming decades. Thor Hogan is a Professor of Politics and Environmental Sustainability at Earlham College, USA.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 America's Cold Civil War and the Need for a Third Founding
Notes
2 The Legitimate Grievances of the Metropolitan Majority
1 I
2 II
3 III
4 IV
5 V
6 VI
7 VII
Notes
3 The Ascent of American Cities
1 I
2 II
3 III
4 IV
5 V
6 VI
7 VII
8 VIII
9 IX
10 X
11 XI
12 XII
13 XIII
Notes
4 Creating City-States to Begin Closing the Urban-Rural Power Divide
1 I
2 II
3 III
4 IV
5 V
6 VI
7 VII
8 VIII
9 IX
10 X
11 XI
12 XII
13 XIII
Notes

5 Structural Reforms and the Restoration of Political Fairness
1 I
2 II
3 III
4 IV
5 V
6 VI
7 VII
Notes
6 Pragmatism and an Urban-Oriented Policy Agenda
1 I
2 II
3 III
4 IV
5 V
6 VI
7 VII
Notes
7 Cosmopolitanism, Livability, and the Return of a Unifying Identity
1 I
2 II
3 III
4 IV
5 V
Notes
Index

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