Aims and ObjectivesThe main aim and objectives of this paper are: 1. To incorporate the concept of Electoral Geography's impacts. 2. To start addressing the research gap on electoral oriented research inJ&K. 3. To study the consistent voting pattern of four major parties in J&K. 4. To...
Get PDF (671K) Summary This paper calls for the incorporation of pre-1872 (and especially early Victorian) elections into the electoral geography research agenda. It argues that early Victorian elections provide a rare opportunity to examine actual voting behaviour at the individual level and also ...
Even politics does not appear to help explain the distribution of Magic Towns, though it must be pointed out that the pattern of voting for presidential elections (maps) may not match the pattern of municipal voting which would be more relevant to applications for Magic Town status....
Collyer, Michael. «A geography of extra-territorial citizenship: Explanations of external voting». Migration Studies, (febrero de 2013), p. 1-18, (en linea) http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/13/migration.mns008.full.pdf+html...
VotingModellingCredibilityNonconformismThe rise of the Labour Party after World War I forced the Liberal Party in Britain back into the nonconformist and remote 'Celtic Fringe', where local identity and religion rather than class remained the dominant political cleavages. The party has struggled to ...
L project area reduces voter support; 2) the spatial structure of votechoice indicates behavioral contagion; 3) the model of voting behavior specified behaves similarly across racial groups. My findings appear to affirm the first two hypotheses, but provide limited support for the third.James New...
Visualization allows for a more open-minded style of analysis. The ward cartogram drawn using Thiessen polygons is presented. A map depicting the transformed map of voting in the 1987 British general election is shown in the chapter. The chapter also shows the transformation of the political map...
Given the far-reaching effects of electoral systems on such factors as party systems, votingbehavior, and representation, it is unsurprising that the choice of electoral system is often highly contested. At the same time, electoral system change is commonly depicted as a rare event.Political ...
Similar maps reflect abrupt changes in the voting pattern of districts where Negroes replaced a formerly white population. Despite certain limitations, detailed electoral maps prove to be economical and reliable research tools, not only for analyzing voter behavior, but also for identifying and solving...