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Electoral geography and redistributive politics
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2014This paper offers a new electoral geography perspective on two stylized facts that do not fit easily with our current understanding of the implications of electoral rules for electoral politics and social policy: (1) proportional representation (PR) electoral rules are not always associated with more generous social spending. In some cases, we observe
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Russia's Electoral Geography: A Review
Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2006A noted specialist on the electoral geography of Russia reviews the existing body of work on the subject based on national elections, beginning with the RSFSR returns from the March 1989 voting for seats in the the USSR Congress of People's Deputies and extending to the presidential race of 2004.
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An electoral geography of Western Europe
GeoJournal, 2000The European Parliament elections give the opportunity to map voting behaviour in Western Europe. The main methodological difficulty is related to the classification of the parties. The cleavage theory is not a sufficient basis for an operational typology. The left-right axis remains an important basis for a classification.
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Three Papers on Electoral Geography
2013This dissertation is composed of three papers on electoral geography. The first, entitled "MCMC Network Voronoi Algorithm for Electoral Districting", develops a sampling routine (along with R code that implements it, available in the Software section) for systematically exploring the space of partitions that define a contiguous districting plan ...
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Geography and the Irish Electoral System
Irish Geography, 2016The electoral system of the Republic of Ireland. Proportional Representation using the Single Transferable Vote (PR-STV), is probably the one which offers the greatest research opportunities of a geographical nature. This paper briefly places electoral geography and PR-STV in context and concentrates on providing an overview and illustrations of the ...
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Electoral Studies in Political Geography
2017This chapter discusses some of the earlier concepts about electoral geography and introduces some new ones. There are three aspects of elections which interest geographers. First, geographers must seek to understand what geographical reasons, if any, prompted or encouraged a government to select a particular electoral method, and, when the method ...
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Developments in Electoral Geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1991Keith Hoggart +3 more
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