Politics in America: Urban versus rural interests

Urban-Rural Interfaces: Linking People and Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 147-163

  Anderson, William L ^a  

^a FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

America; Environmental regulation; Environmental rent seeking; Interest group politics; Progressivism; Rural interests; Urban rural split

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101431531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/2012.urban-rural.c9     Document Type: Chapter

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