This essay is a summary and analysis of Juliet Gainsborough's book "Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics." It looks at politics in the suburbs. IT IS ONLY A SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS 1-4.

As times presses on, many undiscovered areas of political science begin to emerge. Advancements in the world create new political problems and relationships that have yet to been explored. In her book Fenced Off, Juliet Gainsborough begins to explore a new region of political science that many political scientists have long overlooked. Gainsborough defines the effects of suburbanization on modern day political culture. Gainsborough opens in Chapter One by telling two stories about two different …

…done in the field of suburbanization and its relationship to political behavior. Gainsborough brings many political scientists' and her own points of view together to go into an unexplored dimension of political science. As with any field of science, political scientists must be willing to go into the uncharted areas of their field in order to advance political science. Bibliography Gainsborough, Juliet. 2001. Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.