Jonathan Rodden discusses the roots of the urban-rural political divide in the United States and other advanced democracies, paying special attention to the incentives created by electoral institutions. In countries with winner-take-all single-member electoral districts, like the United States and other former British colonies, votes for parties of the left end up highly concentrated in urban districts. Rodden will discuss how this pattern leads to long-term under-representation of those parties relative to their competitors, as well as sharp and enduring internal divides.
Rodden Bio: https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/jonathan-rodden
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