Response to Daniel J. Hopkins’s review of <i>The Cities on the Hill: How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics</i>

Ogorzalek, Thomas K.

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“…It then further increased through the George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump presidencies to unprecedented levels. This finding is consistent with analysis by Ogorzalek (2018 , p. 214), who finds that after 1965, approximately 75% of city representatives were Democratic, and between 40 and 50% of the Democratic caucus came from city districts.…”

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“…We know less about how these divides have developed over the long term. Several studies have examined the historical development of urban-rural divides or urban representation in national legislatures in Canada ( Armstrong et al, 2022 ) and the United States ( Lieberman, 2009 ; Ogorzalek, 2018 ; Rodden, 2019 ), but these studies are rare. Even less common are comparative historical treatments of the urban-rural divide.…”

Section: Causes Of the Urban-rural Divide: A Developmental Perspectivementioning

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“…Some rely on urban and rural categories provided by national statistical agencies or cross-national indicators constructed by the World Bank and other agencies (e.g., Huijsmans et al, 2021 ; Luca et al, 2023 ). Others categorize districts as urban if they overlap with municipalities whose population exceeds a fixed threshold ( Gamm & Kousser, 2013 ; Sauerzopf & Swanstrom, 1999 ) or share of the national population ( Lieberman, 2009 ; Ogorzalek, 2018 ). Another is to identify districts as urban if they correspond with metropolitan areas as defined by national statistics agencies ( McGrane et al, 2017 ; Mettler & Brown, 2022 ; Scala & Johnson, 2017 ; Wolman & Marckini, 1998 ).…”

Section: Measuring the Urban-rural Dividementioning

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The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies

Taylor

Lucas

Armstrong

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Comparative Political Studies

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We provide a mixed-methods, comparative analysis of the development of the urban-rural electoral cleavage in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States from the early 20th century to the present. Using aggregate election results, electoral district boundary files, and electoral district population measures, we construct a new comparable dataset of district election results and urbanity for the lower house of the legislature in each country. We use this dataset to measure the importance of the urban-rural divide for election outcomes across countries and time. We find that the cleavage has widened over time in each country, each arrived at its current urban-rural divide via a distinct developmental trajectory, which we interpret with reference to secondary literature. We conclude by discussing the significance of our findings for theories of both the causes and consequences of urban-rural divides and discuss the implications of our work for the comparative study of urban-rural cleavages.

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The Development of the Urban-Rural Cleavage in Anglo-American Democracies

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Lucas

Armstrong

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Comparative Political Studies

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“…As with our place‐based coding above, we need a coding strategy that is durable across political jurisdictions – to enable the extension of this approach to other jurisdictions in future research – and also permits consistent coding across time. Following recent practice in the study of comparative urban political development, we have adopted a strategy of defining as “urban” those places that are above a threshold of 0.1 percent of Canada's national population at each census period (Lieberman ; Ogorzalek ). While this approach may seem crude, it has the advantage of being exceptionally durable across time, while also generating lists of urban places with remarkably good face validity.…”

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Cities and places in provincial policy agendas

Peterson¹,

Lucas²,

Klain³

2019

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This article uses a new dataset of coded Alberta Throne Speeches from 1906 to 2017 to identify patterns of provincial policy attention to place and urban place across policy issues and time. We discuss three main findings. First, provincial attention to place and urban place is influenced by policy domain: place‐based attention is generally absent in some policy domains, such as macroeconomic policy, and prevalent in others, such as health care. Second, place‐based attention is patterned over time, with a noticeable peak in the post‐war “province‐building” years and distinct troughs in other periods. Finally, we discuss the related but distinct patterns of attention to place and urban place across policy domains and time.

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“…In the North, meanwhile, the civil rights movement endangered a variety of racially discriminatory urban machines as well as local power structures that advantaged whites in different cities, producing conflict ranging from riots to bitter contests over school desegregation (there are endless studies of particular cities; for a broad perspective, see Ogorzalek 2018). These conflicts led many Northern elites and voters to lose interest in civil rights.…”

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Putting Federalism in Its Place

2023

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supported the project that led to this and the earlier volume, Federalism and Social Policy. Theresa Ramirez and Connie Rockman supported that project with the generosity and competence they always show. Comments from Alan Trench, Janet Laible, and Margitta Mätzke on the initial development of this project were very helpful. Finally, the University of Michigan Press, especially Elizabeth Demers, Kevin Rennells, and Haley Winkle, were the combination of supportive, engaged, tough, and patient that authors always appreciate. CHAPTER 1Why Should We Care about Federalism?In Texarkana there is an unusual building. As its name suggests, the town straddles the border between the U.S. states of Texas and Arkansas. The building stands along the border, half on each side. It is a U.S. federal government building, finished in 1933, that combines post offices and courts. The federal courts serving Texas are on the Texas side, and the federal courts serving Arkansas are on the Arkansas side. A post office, equally divided between the two states, serves both. The street splits to go around the building, with different pavement quality and parking rules on the two sides.That one building in a little-known railroad town is a metaphor for federalism. The states constitute the environment, but the federation constitutes the states. It is a legacy of specific political moments and policy decisions that there is a shared post office, serving the American people, in a unifying federal building that reinforces juridical divides between states in its very design. Perhaps it is telling that it is said (by the town's tourism bureau) to be the second most photographed federal building in the United States. It is of no significant architectural interest-except insofar as its location and its twinned courthouses inscribe federal politics in its stones. Letters mailed there since 1933 have been postmarked with a stamp that marks them as having been mailed in both states: "Texarkana-AR-TX" or "Texarkana, USA."The concrete complexity of a federal building in the American Cotton Belt belies much of what is written about federalism. Much research about the impact of federalism, or any other political or social institution, treats it as a binary variable, present or absent, and then look for its effects. Endless effort has been expended and endless ink spilled in scholarly and popular 1. More specifically, this book focuses primarily on federal countries located in Australasia, North America, and Western Europe, which does not mean the lessons it draws are not applicable to federal countries located outside the Global North, such as Argentina,

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Response to Daniel J. Hopkins’s review of The Cities on the Hill: How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics

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