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From: Jefferey Sellers <[log in to unmask]>
Sellers, Jefferey M.; Kübler, Daniel; Walter-Rogg, Melanie; and Walks, W.
Alan (Eds.), _The Political Ecology of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources
of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries_.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
ISBN 978-1-907301-44-5 (pb), 978-1-907301-37-7 (hb).
Abstract:
A growing majority of humanity lives in sprawling, interconnected urban
regions. Diversified metropolitan geographies have replaced the
centuries-old divide between urban and rural areas, and transformed the
local sources of electoral politics. Affluent and low density suburbs
provide powerful bases of support for neoliberal and culturally conservative
parties. Urban concentrations have increasingly joined poor suburbs as
strongholds of the remaining bastions of a Left under attack. New dimensions
of partisan competition have emerged around the material interests and
subcultures of distinct metropolitan places. Throughout the developed world
and beyond, the resulting patterns of electoral support and participation
have shifted axes of partisan competition to the right.
This volume undertakes the first international comparative analysis of
metropolitan electoral behavior, employing multilevel analysis of data from
14,000 localities in 175 metropolitan regions and eleven countries. The
results support a new thesis to explain many recent shifts in political
behavior and public policy: the metropolitanization of politics.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Metropolitzation of Politics
Chapter Two: Place, Institutions, and the Political Ecology of U.S.
Metropolitan Areas
Chapter Three: Metropolitan Political Ecology and Contextual Effects in
Canada
Chapter Four: The Political Ecology of Metropolitan Great Britain
Chapter Five: The Emerging Metropolitan Political Ecology of France
Chapter Six: The Metropolitan Bases of Political Cleavage in Switzerland
Chapter Seven: Does Political Ecology Matter? Voting Behavior in German
Metropolitan Areas
Chapter Eight: The Political Ecology of the Spanish Metropolis: Place,
Socioeconomic, and Regional Effects
Chapter Nine: Metropolitan and Political Change in Sweden
Chapter Ten: The De-Localized Homo Politicus: The Political Ecology of
Polish Metropolitan Areas
Chapter Eleven: The Political Ecology of Czech Metropolitan Areas: Is There
a Post-Communist Metropolitan Model?
Chapter Twelve: Metropolitan Processes and Voting Behavior in Israel
Conclusion: Comparing Metropolitan Sources of Political Behavior
Methodological Appendix
Web Appendices
Jefferey M. Sellers
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.usc.edu/dept/polsci/sellers/
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