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Park Free or Die: Rural Consciousness, Preemption, and the Perennial North Dakota Parking-Meter Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2022

Dana Michael Harsell Open the ORCID record for Dana Michael Harsell [Opens in a new window] ,
David T. Flynn Open the ORCID record for David T. Flynn [Opens in a new window]  and
Mark S. Jendrysik Open the ORCID record for Mark S. Jendrysik [Opens in a new window]
Dana Michael Harsell
Affiliation:
University of North Dakota, USA
David T. Flynn
Affiliation:
University of North Dakota, USA
Mark S. Jendrysik
Affiliation:
University of North Dakota, USA
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Abstract

North Dakota’s unique statewide parking-meter ban was instituted by initiated measure in 1948. The 2017 legislative session witnessed the most credible effort to repeal the ban in decades. The legislative debate centered on tradition, the state’s long-standing urban–rural split, and its lingering populist roots. The authors place this debate within a larger rural-consciousness literature and examine how the politics of rural resentment contributed to maintaining the parking-meter ban, as well as the willingness of state lawmakers to use preemption as a tool to constrain the authority of larger cities. The authors also examine the complexity surrounding individual place-based identities. The extent to which urban residents in a rural state can simultaneously identify as “urban” relative to state-based policies and politics and “rural” relative to federal-based policies and politics merits further consideration.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , January 2023 , pp. 3 - 9
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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