Geography of Elections (Routledge Library Editions Political Geography) [Hardcover]

Within an international framework, this work provides a fully comprehensive approach to the geographical coverage of elections. Numerous applications of ideas and concepts from human geography are incorporated into a new political context, illustrating the manner in which electoral patterns reflect and help produce the overall geography of a region or state. Discussions of various topics are well supported by numerous maps and diagrams which help clarify arguments and serve to define elections within their basic geographical context.

Part 1: Preliminaries1. Geography and Electoral Studies 2. Electoral Systems and Electoral Data Part 2: Geography of Voting3. Political Cleavage and Geographies of Party Support 4. Social Bases of Geographies of Voting Part 3: Geographical Influences in Voting5. The Neighbourhood Effect 6. Candidates, Issues and Campaigns Part 4: Geography of Representation 7. Electoral Abuses 8. Electoral Reform Part 5: Towards a Geography of Power 9. Geography, Elections, Representation and Power