LEADER 02858oam 2200481 450 001 9910747000703321 005 20231106222155.0 010 $a3-031-34063-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-34063-5 035 $a(CKB)28305458700041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30754232 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30754232 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-34063-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928305458700041 100 $a20231012d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aClosing the urban-rural power divide $eenvisioning a United city-States of America /$fThor Hogan 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a9783031340628 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aRural-urban relations$zUnited States 606 $aUrban policy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aRural-urban relations 615 0$aUrban policy 676 $a307.760973 700 $aHogan$b Thor$01395668 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910747000703321 996 $aClosing the Urban-Rural Power Divide$93570014 997 $aUNINA