Closing the urban-rural power divide : envisioning a United city-States of America / / Thor Hogan
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Hogan Thor
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| Titolo: |
Closing the urban-rural power divide : envisioning a United city-States of America / / Thor Hogan
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
| ©2023 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 307.760973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rural-urban relations - United States |
| Urban policy - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Closing the Urban-Rural Power Divide |
| ISBN: | 3-031-34063-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910747000703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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