Earth:Urban-rural political divide
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In political science, the urban-rural political divide is a phenomenon in which predominantly urban and predominantly rural areas within a country have sharply diverging political views. It is a form of political polarization. Typically, urban areas exhibit more liberal, left-wing, cosmopolitan and/or multiculturalist political attitudes, while rural areas exhibit more conservative, right-wing, right-wing populist and/or nationalist political attitudes.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
An urban-rural political divide has been observed worldwide in many nations including the United States ,[1][2][3][4] the United Kingdom ,[5][6] France ,[7] Hungary,[3] Poland ,[3] Belgium,[7] Italy,[7] the Netherlands,[8] Turkey,[3] Thailand,[3] and the Philippines .[3] Political divisions between urban and rural areas have been noted by political scientists and journalists to have intensified in the 21st century, and in particular since the Great Recession.[7] In Europe, the increasing urban-rural polarization has coincided with the decline of center-left parties and concomitant rise of far-left and far-right parties, a trend known as Pasokification.
Examples
United States
Donald Trump
United Kingdom
Brexit
France
Yellow vests movement
Causes
- Globalization
- Deindustrialization
- Opposition to immigration
- Anti-elitism
See also
- Agrarianism
- Anti-urbanism
- Rural–urban fringe
- Wildland–urban interface
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Badger, Emily (2019-05-21). "How the Rural-Urban Divide Became America's Political Fault Line" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/upshot/america-political-divide-urban-rural.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The divide between us: Urban-rural political differences rooted in geography | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis" (in en-US). 2020-02-18. https://source.wustl.edu/2020/02/the-divide-between-us-urban-rural-political-differences-rooted-in-geography/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Rachman, Gideon (30 July 2018). "Urban-rural splits have become the great global divider". The Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/e05cde76-93d6-11e8-b747-fb1e803ee64e.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Biden's Win Shows Rural-Urban Divide Has Grown Since 2016" (in en). https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/934631994/bidens-win-shows-rural-urban-divide-has-grown-since-2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Brexit and public opinion: cities and towns- the geography of discontent" (in en-GB). 2019-02-01. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-and-public-opinion-cities-and-towns-the-geography-of-discontent/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "General election 2019: The towns and cities least likely to vote" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2019-11-25. https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50417767.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "Urban-rural chasm defines new political divide in the West". 2018-12-18. https://apnews.com/article/9fb75e419b374570a8e0744ee7a11753.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "The Urban-Rural Divide in Political Attitudes in the Netherlands" (in en-US). https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/11/09/the-urban-rural-divide-in-political-attitudes-in-the-netherlands/.
Further reading
- Jonathan A. Rodden (4 June 2019). Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide. Basic Books. ISBN 978-1-5416-4425-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=DkRzDwAAQBAJ.
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