Revitalizing Electoral Geography
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Electoral Geography, the analysis of spatial patterns of voting, is undergoing a renaissance with new methodological advances, theoretical shifts and changes in the political landscape. Integrating new conceptual approaches with a broad array of case studies from the USA, Europe and Asia, this volume examines key questions in electoral geography: How has electoral geography changed since the 1980s when the last wave of works in this sub discipline appeared? In what ways does contemporary scholarship in social theory inform the analysis of elections and their spatial patterns? How has electoral geography been reconfigured by social and technological changes and those that shape the voting process itself? How can the comparative analysis of elections inform the field? In addressing these issues, the volume moves electoral geography beyond its traditional, empiricist focus on the United States to engage with contemporary theoretical developments and to outline the myriad theoretical, conceptual and methodological perspectives and applications that together are ushering in electoral geography's revitalization. The result is a broader, comparative analysis of how elections reflect and in turn shape social and spatial relations. [From Amazon.com]
ISBN
9781409410720
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Ashgate Press
City
Burlington, Vermont
Keywords
Electoral geography, Spatial patterns of voting, Case studies, Social relations, Spatial relations, United States
Disciplines
Comparative Politics | Social Policy | Spatial Science
Recommended Citation
Warf, Barney (Editor) and Leib, Jonathan (Editor), "Revitalizing Electoral Geography" (2011). Political Science & Geography Faculty Books. 10.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/10