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Urban–rural political divide

In political science, the urban–rural political divide is a phenomenon in which predominantly urban areas and predominantly rural areas within a country have sharply diverging political views. It is a form of political polarization. Typically, urban areas exhibit more liberal, left-wing, cosmopolitan, and/or multiculturalist political attitudes, while rural areas exhibit more conservative, right-wing, right-wing populist, and/or nationalist political attitudes.

An urban–rural political divide has been observed worldwide in many nations including Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Political divisions between urban and rural areas have been noted by political scientists and journalists to have intensified in the 21st century, and in particular since the Great Recession. In Europe, the increasing urban–rural polarization has coincided with the decline of centre-left parties and concomitant rise of far-right and populist parties, a trend known as Pasokification.

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In Asia, the urban–rural political divide has been observed in China, Malaysia,[1] Thailand,[1] and Turkey.[1][2]

Agrarianism

Anti-urbanism

Centralismo (Peru)

Cleavage (politics)

Rural–urban fringe

Singular population entity

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The Rural-urban Fringe in Canada: Conflict and Controversy

Bunnell, Tim; Parthasarathy, D.; Thompson, Eric C., eds. (2013). (PDF). Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5482-9. ISBN 978-94-007-5481-2.

Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia

Punjabi, Bharat; Johnson, Craig A. (1 August 2019). (PDF). World Development. 120: 182–192. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.021. ISSN 0305-750X.

"The politics of rural–urban water conflict in India: Untapping the power of institutional reform"

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The Urban-rural Divide: Myth Or Reality?

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"Strategies for risk management in urban–rural conflict: Two case studies of land acquisition in urbanising China"