Electoral Systems, Regional Resentment and the Surprising Success of Anglo-American Populism

Spicer, Jason

doi:10.1093/cjres/rsx029

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“…Investing in large and dynamic agglomerations in times of growth and crisis can increase territorial inequalities, which can further trigger populism, thus resulting in less economic stability and more inefficient policies (Rodríguez-Pose, 2018;Spicer, 2018). There is no consensus on the question if urban areas are more or less resilient than rural areas, while little is known about the resilience of the regions that fall between these two extremes.…”

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Regional disparities in economic resilience in the European Union across the urban–rural divide

2019

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The differences in regional economic resilience and the drivers of resilience across the urban-rural hierarchy in the European Union are explored empirically in this paper. Three different resilience indicators are computed based on employment changes. Multilevel logistic and multinomial regression models indicate that the resilience of NUTS-3 regions is strongly affected by national borders; the highest country effects are observed for rural areas. Migration has the greatest positive effect on regional resilience across the urban-rural hierarchy. Agriculture contributes positively to the economic resilience of intermediate and rural regions. Statistically significant spatial patterns of regional resilience are found throughout the EU-27.

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Regional disparities in economic resilience in the European Union across the urban–rural divide

2019

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“…Political attitudes, coalition building, and management strategies at the local level are seldom measured beyond a case study, as large-scale quantitative data do not exist. Moreover, most studies focus on large, urban places even though the pressures that fuel the political crisis are largely from the rural and rustbelt regions (Cramer, 2016; Rodríguez-Pose, 2018; Spicer, 2018).…”

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Austerity urbanism or pragmatic municipalism? Local government responses to fiscal stress in New York State

2019

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As local governments respond to fiscal stress after the global financial crisis, some scholars warn about an austerity urbanism response wherein local governments cut and privatize services, while others see a pragmatic municipalism response that seeks to protect public services by sharing services, applying for more grants, or charging user fees. Existing empirical works lack detail about the types of local government responses and their drivers. Using a structural equation model with 2017 survey data of 919 counties and municipalities in New York State, we explore the drivers of perceived fiscal stress and two responses: cuts and pragmatic municipalism. We find economy, demography, and state policy drive perceptions of fiscal stress and differentiate responses. The dominant response is pragmatic municipalism, and cuts are only dominant in counties and places with more tax-exempt property. Pragmatic municipalism is found not only in places with larger college-educated populations, left-leaning governing boards, and stronger support for maintaining and providing services, but also in places with greater anti-tax sentiments, poverty, and lack of resources for innovation. These results show that local governments use pragmatic approaches to hold back the tide of austerity pressures and respond to local needs within constraints.

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“…Economic geographers, regional scientists, and planners have long shared an interest in the fate of lagging, peripheral or less-favored regions (Glasmeier and Howland 1993;Lyson and Falk 1993;Morgan 1997;Glasmeier and Leichenko 1999;Benneworth and Charles 2005;Isserman, Feser, and Warren 2009;Hackworth 2015). These concerns have only heightened in the wake of recent events across the US and Europe, including Donald Trump's presidential victory and the outcome of the Brexit vote, leading some to call for greater urgency in understanding and addressing the factors that contribute to regional economic decline (Spicer 2018;Rodríguez-Pose 2018b;Storper 2018;Spicer and Storper 2019). In revisiting this agenda, scholars are tempering the city-centric development narratives put forward by influential urbanists in recent years (Florida 2005;Glaeser 2011;Moretti 2012;Fulton 2016), recognizing the need for a more encompassing conceptual framework for understanding the consequences of and alternatives to regional economic divergence (Barca, McCann, and Rodríguez-Pose 2012;Rodríguez-Pose 2018b).…”

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The Maker-Manufacturing Nexus as a Place-Connecting Strategy: Implications for Regions Left Behind

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Vinodrai

2020

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The maker movement has been heralded as a placebased strategy to invigorate urban manufacturingoffering the millennial generation access to affordable, high-quality technologies and inclusive marketing platforms through which to design new products and get them into the hands of design-savvy consumers. Yet it also offers significant place-crossing opportunities that have been overlooked, namely, the potential for the production needs of urban-based makers to be a resource for shoring up manufacturing communities beyond the metropolis at growing risk of being left behind. We demonstrate this possibility through an indepth case study of the Carolina Textile District (CTD), a novel value chain experiment that helps incumbent textile manufacturers in more remote legacy industrial regions connect with and lend support to a new generation of urban-based textile designers and entrepreneurs. We argue the CTD is an innovative distributive platform that transforms the shared vulnerability of urban makers and rural manufacturers into productive and opportunity-rich relationships, fortified by the millennial-maker ethos of forging highroad supply chains in support of social equity and environmental sustainability. As the maker movement gains traction within planning and policy circles, the CTD offers lessons for how to intensify and de-risk interdependencies between nonmetro and urban regions; between old and new manufacturing clusters; and, ultimately, between blue-collar communities and urban-oriented millennial youth. Conceptually, the case speaks to the need for economic geographers to be more attentive to place-connecting industrial strategies in their growing call for spatial equity.

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Electoral Systems, Regional Resentment and the Surprising Success of Anglo-American Populism

Cited by 32 publications

References 60 publications

Regional disparities in economic resilience in the European Union across the urban–rural divide

Regional disparities in economic resilience in the European Union across the urban–rural divide

Austerity urbanism or pragmatic municipalism? Local government responses to fiscal stress in New York State

The Maker-Manufacturing Nexus as a Place-Connecting Strategy: Implications for Regions Left Behind

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