This paper examines the mechanism of political systems influencing urban-rural income gap. Fixed effect models and dynamic panel data models with a cross-national panel data of over 100 countries from 1990 to 2010 are used to estimate the relationship among political systems, urban bias and...

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two sub-disciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship.