Fringe-City Life-Style Distance and Fringe Support of Political Integration

Urban Political Integration in Israel

“…This scholarly concern has borne propositions (Hawkins, 1968(Hawkins, , 1966Booth, 1963) which have not been seriously considered outside the American setting. Utilizing American-based findings, the present paper considers the attitudes of Israeli urban communities toward political integration.Studies of voters' behavior on integration proposals usually rely on aggregate voting results as the dependent variable, and on aggregate socioeconomic data as the independent variablethat is, voter choice has often been explained on the basis of large aggregates of people (Hawkins, 1968). Considerable attention has been given to the relationship of socioeconomic life style and ecological factors to political integration.…”

“…This scholarly concern has borne propositions (Hawkins, 1968(Hawkins, , 1966Booth, 1963) which have not been seriously considered outside the American setting. Utilizing American-based findings, the present paper considers the attitudes of Israeli urban communities toward political integration.…”

“…Studies of voters' behavior on integration proposals usually rely on aggregate voting results as the dependent variable, and on aggregate socioeconomic data as the independent variablethat is, voter choice has often been explained on the basis of large aggregates of people (Hawkins, 1968). Considerable attention has been given to the relationship of socioeconomic life style and ecological factors to political integration.…”

“…Considerable attention has been given to the relationship of socioeconomic life style and ecological factors to political integration. The [470] interest in life style is apparent in the studies by Kaufman and Greer ( 1960); later, in those by Zimmer and Hawley (1961); and more recently, in those by Hawkins (1968) and by Lyons and Engstrom ( 1972).1 The importance of life-style factors as predictive variables has also been demonstrated in case studies of metropolitan areas.…”

“…[471] 1966). Offshoots of this have been research into the attitudes of people in core cities and fringe areas, and those of people of different life styles (such as urban/rural or familistic/nonfamilistic ; Hawkins, 1968;Zimmer and Hawley, 1961;Booth, 1963).…”