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DOI	10.1017/S0003055424000200
	Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains
	Dasgupta, Aditya; Ramirez, Elena
通讯作者	Dasgupta, A ; Ramirez, E
来源期刊	AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
ISSN	0003-0554
EISSN	1537-5943
出版年	2024
英文摘要	Rural areas are conservative electoral strongholds in the United States and other advanced capitalist economies. But this was not always the case. What explains the rise of rural conservatism? This paper argues that technological change transformed not only agriculture but rural political preferences during the twentieth century. It studies a natural experiment: the post-World War II introduction of new irrigation technologies, which enabled farmers to irrigate otherwise arid land in the Great Plains using groundwater. Difference-in-differences analyses exploiting the shock's differential impact on counties overlying the Ogallala Aquifer-a pattern validated with remote-sensing data-show that technological change contributed significantly to the region's long-term conservative electoral transformation. Additional analyses, including comparison of individual policy preferences inside/outside the Ogallala Aquifer boundary, suggest that this was due to the rise of capital-intensive agriculture and the growing power of agribusiness. The findings demonstrate how new technologies made new politics in rural America.
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
开放获取类型	hybrid, Green Submitted
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:001202314100001
WOS关键词	IMPACT ; RISE
WOS类目	Political Science
WOS研究方向	Government & Law
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/402816
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dasgupta, Aditya,Ramirez, Elena. Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains[J],2024.
APA	Dasgupta, Aditya,&Ramirez, Elena.(2024).Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains.AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW.
MLA	Dasgupta, Aditya,et al."Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains".AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (2024).