This book addresses two questions - why some political systems have more centralized systems of interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political

"Examining the historical experience of different countries, a thought-provoking volume, taking on a global perspective to explain inequality the defining issue

Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.

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