1 Introduction
2 Urbanicity and City Delegations
3 "A Proper National Policy"
4 Ties That Bind
5 Anti-racism without Anti-racists
6 The Cities on the Hill
7 Notes for a Metropolitan Political Order
Bibliography
A A1: House CSR
B A2: Demography
C A3: Urbanicity Regressions
Thomas K. Ogorzalek is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also a Civic Engagement Fellow and Co-Director of the Chicago Democracy Project. A lover of cities, for the ways they change and the ways they don't, he lives in Chicago.
"This major contribution to political understanding powerfully
knits together urban and national political affairs. Intellectually
inventive, innovative in data and argument, and a pleasure to read,
its powerful analytical history of institutions and behavior guides
understanding of why urban representatives came to form a cohesive,
often effective, political force, and how today's hard-edged party
polarization emerged." -Ira I. Katznelson,
Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia
University and author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins
of Our Time
"With this landmark analysis of the links between the different
levels of the federal system, Ogorzalek revives the study of urban
politics as a central element in understanding American politics.
Carefully documented and full of incisive, even paradoxical
insights, he shows both how the imperative of overcoming the
differences rife in city settings provided the political foundation
for the liberalism of the long New Deal and why current
metropolitan patterns
have made it difficult to sustain." -John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate
Center
"Reasoning from the most prominent characteristics of cities-size,
density, and heterogeneity-Ogorzalek builds an elegant theory of
urban politics and politicians. This is a brilliant book, teaching,
organizing and illuminating the central characteristics of
urbanicity." -Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego
"This is a fascinating, theoretically sophisticated, and
methodologically rigorous examination of the transformation of
urban political regimes. The book is also incredibly timely:
Ogorzalek offers a way forward for modern day political parties to
reduce political and societal polarization. As he powerfully
illuminates, political coalitions and potential understandings of
shared interests are politically malleable and can be reconceived
and reconciled in ways
that bring diverse constituencies together." -Paul Frymer,
Princeton University
"The Cities on the Hill is an exemplary and pioneering book by
Thomas K. Ogorzalek. The book's title alone provides a helpful
preview, as it brings together disparate bodies of research on
urban politics, Congress, racial and ethnic politics, and political
parties. - Perspectives on Politics
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