Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School and Rich Schragger join in conversation with Nestor Davidson on discussing localism, federalism, and governance. The dialogue is featured on sloglaw.org.
The dialogue below—a format for reflection that we are going to experiment with here at SLoG—reflects on the history of American anti-urbanism, ways in which the most salient political cleavages we face today are along the urban/rural divide, and how emergent contemporary localism centered on metropolitan-scale conflicts now drive national political life, with so many state legislatures places of structurally entrenched minority power - and what might be done to shift this dynamic.