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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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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. It is argued that the cartographic approach is very
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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. It is argued that the cartographic approach is very
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Deprivation and the Electoral Geography of Brexit
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020This paper provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between deprivation and the electoral geography of Brexit, using the most granular referendum data and the most detailed deprivation data currently available. Using rank-based statistics we demonstrate that geographic deprivation is positively associated with Leave voting.
Jump, Robert Calvert, Michell, Jo
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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