What Does Suburbia Vote for?

Changed Settlement Patterns and Political Preferences in Three European Countries
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8487-3625-6
Verlag: Nomos

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 331 Seiten, broschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: Politik und Demokratie in den kleineren Ländern Europas | Politics and Governance in the Smaller European Democracies

Is there such a thing as suburban political preference in Western Europe, and if so, how would such a finding be related to political cleavages? To answer these questions, this book combines approaches from political science and urban studies to explain how political preferences of core city and suburban voters differ from a cross-national comparative perspective by analysing Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The book postulates that urban-suburban divergences in political preference are related to diverging patterns of the daily use of spaces as well as to different lifestyles within the middle class.
The analyses show that suburbanites tend to prefer the conservative side of the political spectrum. Suburbia, despite being part of the urbanised world, tends towards political preference patterns that are closer to rural than to core city patterns. In a further context, the study aims to broaden the understanding of political cleavages in European multiparty democracies, particularly the urban-rural cleavage, by highlighting the relationship between one of the largest changes in the European landscape over the 20th century and its inhabitants’ political preferences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ströbele, Maarit Felicitas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen