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1 online resource (326 pages) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Country Songs for City Folks -- The Rebirth of the Rural Ethic -- The People Return to the Land -- Paying Attention to the Backbeyond -- The Plan of the Book -- 1. Country Mouse and City Mouse -- Defining Ruralism -- Socioeconomic Status -- Anomie, Happiness, Authoritarianism -- Opinions on Social Issues and Support for Institutions -- Linkages to the System -- Awareness, Concern, Activity -- Political Mind Sets -- Trust, Efficacy, Ideology -- Support for the System: Politicians, Groups, Structure -- Political Issues -- Summary -- 2. Rural States in an Urban Nation: Patterns of Politics -- Political Culture and Coherence -- Government Structure -- Political Process -- Public Policy -- Summary -- 3. Participation in the Rural States -- The Center-Periphery Model: States and the Nation -- The Center-Periphery Model: Outback and the State Capital -- A Note on Method -- Intrastate Regionalism -- Political Competition -- Standard SES and Challenger Hypotheses -- Summary -- 4. Party Competition in the Rural States -- Party Politics in the Rural States -- The Master Hypothesis -- The SES Diversity Model in the Rural States -- Mississippi -- Competition at First Dawn -- Vermont -- Competition in Adolescence -- Montana: Mature Partisanship in a Rural Setting -- Summary -- 5. The Primary Systems -- Mississippi -- A Legacy of Chaos -- Vermont: Where a One-Party Primary System Has Disappeared -- Montana: Dual Primaries in a Rural State -- Summary -- 6. The Legislature: People Who Serve -- Conceptual Windows for a Rural Landscape -- The Reapportionment Bubble -- The Policymakers -- Mississippi -- The Policymakers -- Vermont -- The Policymakers -- Montana -- Summary -- 7. The Legislature: Voting Behavior and Public Policy |
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Voting Behavior in State Legislatures -- Mississippi: Seeking Out Patterns in Chaos -- Vermont: The Coming and Going of Democratic Cohesion -- Montana: Party Government in a Rural Setting -- Summary -- A Concluding Essay: Life Without Cities-Techno-Politics in Rural America -- Bibliographical Remarks -- Index |
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Publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Subject |
Local government -- United States
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Local government
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Rural conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140507
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000235630 |
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1000235637 |
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