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Suburban politics, while being subjected to more and more empirical research, often is studied in a theoretical void. This article attempts to provide a general theoretical structure for the study of suburban politics which focuses on three inherent developmental factors: the developmental stage of the surrounding metropolitan area; the circumstances of origin of the suburb; and the developmental phase of the particular suburb. Also related are a number of descriptive factors pertaining to the character of the suburban community. These independent variables are used to predict three ele ments of suburban politics: political style, kinds of issues, and kinds of relations with neighboring communities.

It has become common to speak of some kind of nat'l Ur/subUr division in the US. However, when samples of Ur residents & subUr residents in 7 metropolitan areas were compared, no statistically signif diff was found with regard to several important pol'al attitude & activity patterns. In addition when the importance of a nat'l Ur/subUr division was compared to the importance of inter-metropolitan area diff's, the nat'l Ur/subUr diff was found to be least successful in explaining the total variance among the samples. The findings suggest that future metropolitan res should be directed toward studying each metropolitan area separately. AA.