New publication from fellow Stockholm University PhD candidate Stefan Persson! Using decades of Swedish public opinion data, he finds that national policy is much more likely to reflect the views of big city residents than rural ones.
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While most studies of unequal political representation focus on divisions by income and education, this paper centers the urban–rural divide as a key axis of variation in opinion–policy congruence....
