Road to Inequality - How Federal Highway Program Polarized America Undermined Cities

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Clayton Nall, Clayton (Stanford University Nall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2018
• EAN: 9781108417594
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41759-4
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, TRANSPORTATION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Politics & government, Urban & municipal planning, Politics and government, Sociology & anthropology, History of the Americas, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Sociology and anthropology, Central / national / federal government, Transport planning and policy, Society and Social Sciences, Central government, Transport planning & policy