ISBN:
9781108277952
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvii, 170 pages)
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DDC:
303.48/320973
Keywords:
Federal Highway Program (U.S.)
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Transportation and state / United States
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Highway planning / Political aspects / United States
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Political geography
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Suburbs / Political aspects / United States
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Election districts / United States
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Urban policy / United States
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United States / Politics and government
Abstract:
The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system. For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate. This book examines the highway programs' policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex, mutually-reinforcing processes that have shaped America's growing urban-suburban divide and, with it, the politics of metropolitan public investment. As Americans have become more polarized on urban-suburban lines, attitudes towards transportation policy - a once quintessentially 'local' and non-partisan policy area - are now themselves driven by partisanship, endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- How highways facilitate partisan geographic sorting -- Highways polarize metropolitan political geography -- Transportation becomes a partisan issue -- Implications for transportation policymaking -- Conclusion
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DOI:
10.1017/9781108277952
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