Bringing up the past: Political experience and the distribution of urban populations |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Environmental Science, Sharda University, Greater Noida., India;2. Environmental Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Patna University, Patna, India;1. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;2. British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, UK;3. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This article reexamines the effects of political determinants on urban population distributions by developing a series of longitudinal measures that proxy for a nation’s political experiences. The cross-national analyses are derived from a new database that includes population figures for the five largest cities of 123 nations from 1960 to 2005. This coverage allows for the development of the 1–4 urban primacy ratio which is used to assess past findings and test four hypotheses related to the length of capital status as well as colonial, democratic, and communist experiences. The main findings suggest that the length of a nation’s largest city’s capital status is positively associated with urban primacy. Conversely, nations with longer democratic or communist experiences have lower levels of urban primacy. Finally, the results on colonial experience are curvilinear and lend strong support to modernization and central place theory. |
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| Keywords: | Urban primacy Cities Urbanization Political experience |
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