Perceptions of Rural Deprivation’s Impact on Evaluations of Governmental Representation

• In Event: Race, Resentment, Rurality, or Relative Deprivation?

Brief Overview

In this piece I develop a novel conception of the role of place identity and of Perceived Rural Deprivation (PRD). This work finds that increased levels of PRD lead to increasingly negative evaluations of federal governmental representation.

Author

• Mary Rachael Blandau, University of Kentucky