The Stake of Rural People in Metropolitan Government (Classic Reprint)
The Stake of Rural People in Metropolitan Government (Classic Reprint)

Author: Clarence Jacob Hein

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780266055457

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Excerpt from The Stake of Rural People in Metropolitan Government Some special activities extend much far ther. For example, the milkshed from which the metropolitan area draws its milk supply may extend over hundreds of square miles. Water, also, may be obtained from distant sources. In both instances, the interests of metropolitan residents become intertwined with those of residents of the open country and of smaller cities. And sometimes with those of other metropolitan areas. Nearer the central urban areas, but usually outside their boundaries, are such adjuncts to urban living as water reser vairs, airports, golf courses, recreational areas, and industrial parks. Their location next to farms and rural residences has some obvious effects on rural residents. Increased traffic on the adjoining highways, an increase in various kinds of noise, and often some degree of water and stream pollution are some of the problems that arise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

For-Profit Democracy
For-Profit Democracy

Author: Loka Ashwood

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0300235143

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A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for†‘profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fieldwork, this eye†‘opening assessment by sociologist Loka Ashwood plays out in a mixed†‘race Georgia community that hosted the first nuclear power reactors sanctioned by the government in three decades. This work serves as an explanatory mirror of prominent trends in current American politics. Churches become havens for redemption, poaching a means of retribution, guns a tool of self†‘defense, and nuclear power a faltering solution to global warming as governance strays from democratic principles. In the absence of hope or trust in rulers, rural racial tensions fester and divide. The book tells of the rebellion that unfolds as the rights of corporations supersede the rights of humans.

Urbanization in a Federalist Context
Urbanization in a Federalist Context

Author: Roscoe Martin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1351300431

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The emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere has its effects been greater than in the domain of government. The growth of the city and its evolution into the metro-city has led to problems more complex and intense than any previously known. These problems command the concern and resources of all governments, federal as well as state and local; for as they have gained general attention they have emerged as national problems. Coincident with national involvement in problems once held to be local has come a rise in federal government relations with the cities. Such relations, though in fact of long standing, have increased greatly in number and intensity since 1933. The result is a significant expansion in the practice of federalism, one marked by the emergence of the cities as partners in the federal system. Urbanization in a Federalist Context treats the expanded federal partnership in urban growth and argues that it is not a fact to be welcomed. Martin traces the expansion of federal authority in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. He shows how local issues become national issues, and also how national authority expands, affecting all aspects of location government. The developments he explores reflect a federal system in the process of constant but evolutionary growth. Martin reveals why the relationship between the federal system and metro-cities is a flexible arrangement, capable of adjusting to new demands-but not without its own risks. This classic will be of continuing interest to those concerned about the consequences of the expansion of government authority in the United States.