Closing the Urban-Rural Power Divide Envisioning a United City-States of America

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 Const...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hogan, Thor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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