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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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