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Americans move to the suburbs has many political implications but that is asubject on which there has been much pontificating but surprisingly littleevidenceuntil now. And along with explicating what has happened and why EricOliver never lets the reader forget why all of this matters how his resultslink up with urgent issues of the day and deep concerns of social scientists.Suburbanization is good for participation but bad for democratic decisionmaking no other book presents us with quite this conundrum in such a powerfulfashion.Jennifer L. Hochschild Harvard UniversityDemocracy in Suburbia is an important contribution to the literature onparticipation and metropolitan areas and to modern democratic theory morebroadly. Oliver forcefully shows how the spatial racial and class divisionswritten into metropolitan geography weaken democratic vitality.MargaretWeir University of California at BerkeleyThe contributions of this book are many. Oliver provides sweeping coverage ofthe various arguments claims and anecdotes associated with suburbanization inthe United States offers a systematic empirical analysis of how variousdimensions of suburbanization are associated with different levels ofparticipation and why and he proposes how the negative consequences ofsuburbanization might be ameliorated. Particularly notable is Olivers engagingstyle it is direct intelligent and masterfully interweaves anecdotal claimsand evidence with more systematic statistical evidence.Jan Leighley TexasAM University «
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