02858oam 2200481 450 991074700070332120231106222155.03-031-34063-910.1007/978-3-031-34063-5(CKB)28305458700041(MiAaPQ)EBC30754232(Au-PeEL)EBL30754232(DE-He213)978-3-031-34063-5(EXLCZ)992830545870004120231012d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClosing the urban-rural power divide envisioning a United city-States of America /Thor HoganFirst edition.Cham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2023]©20231 online resource (257 pages)Includes index.9783031340628 Chapter 1: The Third Founding of American Democracy -- Chapter 2: A Corporatist-Ruralist Vetocracy -- Chapter 3: The Role of Cities in Global History -- Chapter 4: America’s Urban History -- Chapter 5: First-Wave Structural Reforms: The Adoption of City-States -- Chapter 6: Second-Wave Structural Reforms: The Constitution -- Chapter 7: City-State Policy Agenda -- Chapter 8: Urban Livability Agenda -- Chapter 9: A More Perfect Union.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 Constitution—especially equal representation in the Senate—to 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.Rural-urban relationsUnited StatesUrban policyUnited StatesUnited StatesPolitics and governmentRural-urban relationsUrban policy307.760973Hogan Thor1395668MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910747000703321Closing the Urban-Rural Power Divide3570014UNINA