Political, Electoral, and Spatial Systems
| Author | : Ronald John Johnston |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
Political Electoral And Spatial Systems
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Electoral Systems
| Author | : Dan S. Felsenthal |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2012-01-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3642204414 |
Both theoretical and empirical aspects of single- and multi-winner voting procedures are presented in this collection of papers. Starting from a discussion of the underlying principles of democratic representation, the volume includes a description of a great variety of voting procedures. It lists and illustrates their susceptibility to the main voting paradoxes, assesses (under various models of voters' preferences) the probability of paradoxical outcomes, and discusses the relevance of the theoretical results to the choice of voting system.
Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
| Author | : Keith T. Poole |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2005-04-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781139446754 |
This book presents a simple geometric model of voting as a tool to analyze parliamentary roll call data. Each legislator is represented by one point and each roll call is represented by two points that correspond to the policy consequences of voting Yea or Nay. On every roll call each legislator votes for the closer outcome point, at least probabilistically. These points form a spatial map that summarizes the roll calls. In this sense a spatial map is much like a road map because it visually depicts the political world of a legislature. The closeness of two legislators on the map shows how similar their voting records are, and the distribution of legislators shows what the dimensions are. These maps can be used to study a wide variety of topics including how political parties evolve over time, the existence of sophisticated voting and how an executive influences legislative outcomes.
Developments in Electoral Geography
| Author | : Ron Johnston |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2014-10-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1317610067 |
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.
Revitalizing Electoral Geography
| Author | : Dr Jonathan Leib |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2012-11-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1409490238 |
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.
Geography of Elections
| Author | : Peter J. Taylor |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2014-10-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1317601866 |
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.
An Introduction to Political Geography
| Author | : Martin Jones |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780415250764 |
An Introduction to Political Geography provides a broad-based introduction to how power interacts with space; how place influences political identities; and how policy creates and remoulds territory. By pushing back the boundaries of what we conventionally understand as political geography, the book emphasizes the interactions between power, politics and policy, space, place and territory in different geographical contexts. This is both an essential text for political geographers and also a valuable resource for students of related fields with an interest in politics and geography.
Making Votes Count
| Author | : Gary W. Cox |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 1997-03-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521585279 |
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.
A Unified Theory of Voting
| Author | : Samuel Merrill |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1999-09-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521665490 |
Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the United States, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.
The Space between Us
| Author | : Ryan D. Enos |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2017-10-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108359612 |
The Space between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life. By going into the neighborhoods of real cities, Enos shows how our perceptions of racial, ethnic, and religious groups are intuitively shaped by where these groups live and interact daily. Through the lens of numerous examples across the globe and drawing on a compelling combination of research techniques including field and laboratory experiments, big data analysis, and small-scale interactions, this timely book provides a new understanding of how geography shapes politics and how members of groups think about each other. Enos' analysis is punctuated with personal accounts from the field. His rigorous research unfolds in accessible writing that will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike, illuminating the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives.
