Developments in Electoral Geography

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-80991-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography

The essays in this collection show how electoral geography has shifted from empiricist activity towards a closer involvement with the wider issues addressed by social scientists. They illustrate the potential contributions that electoral geographers can make towards the understanding of global, national and local societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Ron

Shelley, Fred M

Taylor, Peter J

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Developments in Electoral Geography Part 1: The State of Electoral Geography 2. From Political Methodologyt to Geographical Social Theory? A Critical Review of Electoral Geography 1960-87 3. Whither Electoral Geography? A Critique Part 2: The Cleavage Model and Electoral Geography 4. The Electoral Geography of the Netherlands in the Era of Mass Politics, 1888-1986 5. Tradition Contra Change: The Political Geography of Irish Referenda, 1937-87 6. Volatile Stability: New Zealand’s 1987 General Election 7. An Ecological Perspective on Working Class Political Behaviour: Neighbourhood and Class Formation in Sheffield 8. Lipset and Rokkan Revisited: Electoral Cleavages, Electoral Geography, and Electoral Strategy in Great Britain 9. The Cleavage Model and Electoral Geography: A Review Part 3: American Exceptionalism 10. Populism and Agrarian Ideology: The 1982 Nebraska Corporate Farming Referendum 11. Social Transformation and Changing Urban Electoral Behaviour 12. Spatial Targeting Strategies: Representation and Local Politics 13. Identical Geography, Different Party: A Natural Experiment on the Magnitude of Party Differences in the U. S. Senate 1960-1984 14. Local Voting and Social Change Part 4: Future Directions 15. Electoral Geography and the Ideology of Place: The Making of Regions in Belgian Electoral Politics 16. Regulating Union Representation Elections: Towards of Third Type of Electoral Geography 17. Extending The World of Electoral Geography

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Johnston, Fred M. Shelley, Peter J. Taylor