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OverviewOver the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and South, but in the differences between how cities and rural areas govern themselves and pursue their interests on the national stage. Using a wide range of evidence from Congress and an original dataset measuring the urbanicity of districts over time, he shows how the trajectory of partisan politics in America today was set in the very beginning of the New Deal. Both rural and urban America were riven with local racial conflict, but beginning in the 1930s, city leaders became increasingly unified in national politics and supportive of civil rights, changes that sowed the seeds of modern liberalism. As Ogorzalek powerfully demonstrates, the red and blue shades of contemporary political geography derive more from rural and urban perspectives than clean state or regional lines-but local institutions can help bridges the divides that keep Americans apart. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas K. Ogorzalek (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780190668884ISBN 10: 0190668881 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 02 August 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"1 Introduction 2 Urbanicity and City Delegations 3 ""A Proper National Policy"" 4 Ties That Bind 5 Anti-racism without Anti-racists 6 The Cities on the Hill 7 Notes for a Metropolitan Political Order Bibliography A A1: House CSR B A2: Demography C A3: Urbanicity Regressions"ReviewsThis major contribution to political understanding powerfully knits together urban and national political affairs. Intellectually inventive, innovative in data and argument, and a pleasure to read, its powerful analytical history of institutions and behavior guides understanding of why urban representatives came to form a cohesive, often effective, political force, and how today's hard-edged party polarization emerged. -Ira I. Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University and author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time With this landmark analysis of the links between the different levels of the federal system, Ogorzalek revives the study of urban politics as a central element in understanding American politics. Carefully documented and full of incisive, even paradoxical insights, he shows both how the imperative of overcoming the differences rife in city settings provided the political foundation for the liberalism of the long New Deal and why current metropolitan patterns have made it difficult to sustain. -John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center Reasoning from the most prominent characteristics of cities-size, density, and heterogeneity-Ogorzalek builds an elegant theory of urban politics and politicians. This is a brilliant book, teaching, organizing and illuminating the central characteristics of urbanicity. -Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego This is a fascinating, theoretically sophisticated, and methodologically rigorous examination of the transformation of urban political regimes. The book is also incredibly timely: Ogorzalek offers a way forward for modern day political parties to reduce political and societal polarization. As he powerfully illuminates, political coalitions and potential understandings of shared interests are politically malleable and can be reconceived and reconciled in ways that bring diverse constituencies together. -Paul Frymer, Princeton University Author InformationThomas K. Ogorzalek is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also a Civic Engagement Fellow and Co-Director of the Chicago Democracy Project. A lover of cities, for the ways they change and the ways they don't, he lives in Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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