PREVIEW: Urban Rural Bias | S01E15 | Political Reality
FULL EPISODE: / 155715402
https://politicalrealitypodcast.com
1. 📚 Katherine J. Cramer, The Politics of Resentment
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
📝 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=18...
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/upl...
4. 📄 Trujillo & Crowley, “Symbolic versus material concerns of rural consciousness in the United States”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
5. 📄 Brown & Mettler, “Rural politics in the United States”
https://www.annualreviews.org/content...
6. 📄 Brown & Mettler, “Sequential polarization: The development of the rural-urban political divide, 1976–2020”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
7. 🌐 Quick article summarizing some empirical trends between population density and vote share
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-...
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...
📊 a. Relatedly, here’s a research report that underscores that urban, suburban, and rural areas are by no means monoliths
https://globalaffairs.org/sites/defau...
📈 b. And here’s a Pew survey with similar findings
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-tr...
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/...
🎤 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-...
🏙️ 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...