PREVIEW: Urban Rural Bias | S01E15 | Political Reality
FULL EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/155715402
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1. Katherine J. Cramer, The Politics of Resentment
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22879533.html
a. Non-paywalled, non-scientific, but nevertheless helpful and short(!) student summary of a talk by Kathy about this work
https://civic.mit.edu/index.html?p=1891.html
2. Katherine J. Cramer, “Putting inequality in its place: Rural consciousness and the power of perspective.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23275431
a. Somewhat unrelated, and we didn’t actually mention this in the episode, but Katherine Cramer is also involved in a project at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication that might be of interest to our audience 🙂
https://www.ccc.mit.edu
3. Nelson & Petsko, “Race and white rural consciousness”
https://www.christopherpetsko.com/uploads/1/2/5/8/125868532/race-and-white-rural-consciousness.pdf
4. Trujillo & Crowley, “Symbolic versus material concerns of rural consciousness in the United States”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629822000725
5. Brown & Mettler, “Rural politics in the United States”
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-040623-114017
6. Brown & Mettler, “Sequential polarization: The development of the rural-urban political divide, 1976–2020”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/sequential-polarization-the-development-of-the-ruralurban-political-divide-19762020/ED2077E0263BC149FED8538CD9B27109
7. Quick article summarizing some empirical trends between population density and vote share
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-urban-rural-divide
8. Kaufman, “Where are the values voters? Ideological constraint and stability among rural, suburban, and urban populations in the United States”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743016721003259
a. Relatedly, here’s a research report that underscores that urban, suburban, and rural areas are by no means monoliths
https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/report_urban-rural-divide-us-foreign-policy_170524.pdf
b. And here’s a Pew survey with similar findings
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/what-unites-and-divides-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/
9. Braver Angels is an example of an organization working to increase conversations across political differences, including between urban and rural Americans
https://braverangels.org
10. Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, Racial and ethnic politics in American suburbs (we touched on these themes a bit in our discussion of the suburbs, but certainly much more to cover in future episodes about racial and ethnic politics!)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/racial-and-ethnic-politics-in-american-suburbs/8E23703D5C1E6DDA8D7AB7609C6C0E9F
a. Separately, here’s an interesting interview with Lorrie about the need for more high-quality data for research on this topic!
https://politicalsciencenow.com/ucla-associate-professor-of-political-science-lorrie-frasure-yokley-shares-her-experiences-as-a-political-scientist-and-apsa-member/
️ b. For more on suburbs if you’re interested: Thomas Vicino is another political scientist whose body of research on the suburbs may be of interest, particularly his recent, “In what sense a post-suburban era?” in The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs
https://thomasjvicino.com/research
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/89019656/9781315266442-4-libre.pdf
