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Geography and the Electoral System
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1977Does the single-member plurality electoral system encourage a party to make sectional appeals? As put, such a question would daunt the most energetic historian of party strategy. But we can address a closely related question: does the single-member plurality system actually reward parties whose support is geographically concentrated and punish parties ...
Richard Johnston, Janet Ballantyne
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International Political Science Review, 1980
In recent years there has been increased interest, especially from geographers, in the field of electoral geography. In this article three major approaches to the study of voting—the cartographic method, the "friends and neighbors" models, and the "nationalization" models—are discussed and evaluated.
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In recent years there has been increased interest, especially from geographers, in the field of electoral geography. In this article three major approaches to the study of voting—the cartographic method, the "friends and neighbors" models, and the "nationalization" models—are discussed and evaluated.
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Towards a Feminist Electoral Geography
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014Over 30 years ago, Drake and Horton (1983) discussed the “sexist bias” of political geography. Despite significant changes in the field since then, I would argue that electoral geography as a subfield remains subtly gendered in two ways: in the identities of those who write it, and in its mainstream content. In this short piece I seek to understand why
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2002
On a national scale, electoral geography allows us to refine and spatialize the behaviors studied by electoral sociology, whose samples generally prove insufficiently representative at regional and local levels. It allows us to bring in additional hypotheses to explain the relationships between voting behaviors and the social, cultural, ideological ...
Christian Vandermotten +1 more
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On a national scale, electoral geography allows us to refine and spatialize the behaviors studied by electoral sociology, whose samples generally prove insufficiently representative at regional and local levels. It allows us to bring in additional hypotheses to explain the relationships between voting behaviors and the social, cultural, ideological ...
Christian Vandermotten +1 more
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Electoral geography is the study of the spatial dimension of the electoral process. It examines the factors and patterns underlying long-standing ideological and political splits in society and their territorial diff erences, as well as the political activity of voters and their voting habits by administrative and territorial unit, constituency and ...
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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.
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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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Revitalizing Electoral Geography
2016Contents: Part I Conceptual Foundations: Introduction, Barney Warf and Jonathan Leib On the shores of the 'moribund backwater'?: trends in electoral geography research since 1990, Jonathan Leib and Nicholas Quinton. Part II Electoral Geography Outside of the US: Electoral systems, geography, and political behaviour: United Kingdom examples, Ron ...
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EXPLAINING GERMANY’S ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY
German Politics and Society, 2019Partisan attachments and voting behavior in Germany today are more volatile than in the past. This article tests the enduring influence of social cleavages on voting relative to two other factors that account for party performance: path dependent forces and spatial dependence.
Steven Wuhs, Eric McLaughlin
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THE FUNCTION AND METHODS OF ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1959The earliest electoral study was by E. Krebheil who examined the significance of geographic influences in the analysis of British Parliamentary elections between 1885 and 1910.2 His paper was based on the belief that men's actions are often determined by public opinion, which can be measured only by election results.
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