Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.
Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.
Clayton Nall is Assistant Professor of Political Science and a faculty affiliate in the Urban Studies Program at Stanford University, California. His research has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Statistical Science, and The Lancet, and his work has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. This book is based on research that won the Harvard Department of Government's Toppan Prize for the best political science dissertation and the APSA William Anderson Award for the best dissertation on federalism and state and local politics.
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1. Introduction 2. How highways facilitate partisan geographic sorting 3. Highways polarize metropolitan political geography 4. Transportation becomes a partisan issue 5. Implications for transportation policymaking 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index.
