Introduction
Urban Bias in perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5774953 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashutosh Varshney (0000-0002-0215-9790, Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220389308422293 |
| OpenAlex | W2104242729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 17 |
Under what conditions might urban bias erode? Are those conditions entirely uncommon? Or is it that our customary understanding was wrong in several key respects? These are the questions underlying this volume. To express our vantage point clearly, the papers focus on the conditions under which the countryside is not 'squeezed'. Four critiques of the urban bias theory emerge, three of which are new. First, the urban bias theory neglects political institutions. The urban bias outcome is not true across political systems (democracy versus authoritarianism), or across ideological orientations of the ruling elite (pro-rural or pro-industrial). Second, the urban bias theory did not anticipate how technical change over time could begin to make the rural sector powerful. Third, the conception of how rural interests are expressed in politics is limited in urban bias theory to the strictly economic issues. Ethnic (and religious) identities may cut across the rural and urban sectors, and may obstruct an economic expression of rural interests more than the power of the city. Finally, as pointed out earlier a special issue of this journal on urban bias, the urban-rural boundaries may at times be hard to detect
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |