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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.
Ralph S Clem
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Towards an emotional electoral geography: The performativity of emotions in electoral campaigning in Ecuador [PDF]
Geoforum, 2013 Building on feminist geopolitics and emotional geography, this paper calls for an emotional electoral geography that understands electoral practices as grounded, embodied and intertwined with the time-spatial context in which electioneering takes ‘place’.
Carolin Schurr
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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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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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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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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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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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