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Introduction

This chapter frames the subsequent analyses with a vignette of a congressional debate between urban and rural constituencies. In this exchange, city politician par excellence Richard J. Daley articulates the priorities of cities and explains their pursuit of allies, while rural representatives cite the formidable unity of urban legislators as a reason for maintaining cities’ historic underrepresentation. But the very premise of this rural position—that cities are sites of political unity—demands scrutiny. After all, cities are the sites of all kinds of continual and recurrent contention, both violent and subtle. From where did the political unity of urban representation, constructed from deeply divided “pre-political” building blocks, come? This is the key question of the book. The chapter also describes the original data gathered for the project and situates the analysis within the study of the effects of local institutions on national politics.

Oxford University Press

Thomas K. Ogorzalek

Oxford Scholarship Online

2018

Title: Introduction

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This chapter frames the subsequent analyses with a vignette of a congressional debate between urban and rural constituencies.

In this exchange, city politician par excellence Richard J.

Daley articulates the priorities of cities and explains their pursuit of allies, while rural representatives cite the formidable unity of urban legislators as a reason for maintaining cities’ historic underrepresentation.

But the very premise of this rural position—that cities are sites of political unity—demands scrutiny.

After all, cities are the sites of all kinds of continual and recurrent contention, both violent and subtle.

From where did the political unity of urban representation, constructed from deeply divided “pre-political” building blocks, come? This is the key question of the book.

The chapter also describes the original data gathered for the project and situates the analysis within the study of the effects of local institutions on national politics.

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