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Contested spaces of hegemony: left alliances after the crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This reflects on the insights that geography can bring to bear on discussions of hegemony. It draws heavily on the work of Doreen Massey, for whom this essay is a form of tribute.
Featherstone, Dave
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Muslim Women Political Leaders and Electoral Participation in Muslim-Majority Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper focuses on Muslim women political leaders and their agency in the modern world. While some Muslim women have a difficult time participating politically, others actively act in policy and government.
Rolland, Abby M.
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Unsung heroes: Constituency election agents in British general elections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Despite their central role in the electoral process, constituency agents have been largely overlooked by political scientists and this article seeks to rectify the omission.
Bennie L.   +9 more
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GEOGRAPHY OF THE NEW ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND CHANGING VOTING PATTERNS IN HUNGARY [PDF]

open access: yesActa Geobalcanica, 2015
After nearly half a century of single-party communist dictatorship Hungary returned to a pluralist democratic system in 1989-1990. The electoral system that was designed hastily before the first post-communist elections held in March 1990 remained intact
Zoltán Kovács, György Vida
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Le vote blanc et nul en Wallonie : analyse écologique et individuelle

open access: yesBelgeo, 2010
Blank and null votes are probably the electoral behaviour least taken into account by electoral studies. Though, in a democracy like Belgium, these votes are far from negligible and offer an untypical geography which underlines border areas.
Geoffrey Pion
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The geography of electoral volatility in Hungary: a core-periphery perspective

open access: yesHungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2022
Electoral volatility is understood in the literature as a sign of political instability, weakening social cohesion and the declining influences of existing political parties which threatens the healthy functioning of representative democracy.
Zoltán Bertus, Zoltán Kovács
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Predicting the Brexit vote: getting the geography right (more or less) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In April 2016 in two contributions to this blog Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones and David Manley predicted the likely geography of support for Brexit in the EU referendum. In this concluding piece they compare their predictions to the result.
Johnston, Ron   +2 more
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Electoral geography and manifestoes of new «urban» parties from 1977 to 1999: how urban are they really?

open access: yesBelgeo, 2003
This paper examines the relationship between electoral results and party manifestoes from a spatial perspective. The manifestoes and electoral geography of two new, allegedly «urban» parties in Flanders are compared in order to assess whether these ...
Filip De Maesschalck, Maarten Loopmans
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Electoral geography. Theoretical approaches for the Argentinian case

open access: yesCuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía, 2009
This paper focuses in electoral geography, a subdiscipline of politic geography that approaches the vote from a space-time perspective of electoral results in order to respond to the search for causes that explain these results.
Norma B. Monzón
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Régions, néo-régionalisme, quels enjeux pour la géographie ?

open access: yesTerritoire en Mouvement, 2012
Europe is affected by the development in of a neo-regionalism based upon riches regions interests, of which Italy, with its « septentrional question » is an example. It is a real problem for the geography as a scientific discipline.
Dominique Rivière
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