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Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organisation of Elections - Couverture souple

Taylor, Peter; Gudgin, Graham

 
9781907301353: Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organisation of Elections
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1907301356 ISBN 13 : 9781907301353
Editeur : ECPR Press, 2012

Synopsis

In many elections - especially those using single-member constituency systems - the allocation of seats is incommensurate with each party's share of the votes cast. Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections provides a convincing, rigorous analysis of this disproportionality which has not been improved on since its publication over 30 years ago. Its formal analysis, illustrated by empirical examples from a range of countries, stresses the importance of three geographies as key influences on how votes are translated into seats: the geography of partisan support (where people with different political persuasions cluster); the homogeneity of those clusters; and their relative size. Its re-publication makes this classic piece of spatial (political) science available to contemporary audiences, for whom it is as relevant as when the book first appeared in 1979; Ron Johnston's introductory essay sets the work in context and identifies its importance as the foundation for three decades of subsequent work into this key feature of electoral system operation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Graham Gudgin is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Business Research and Senior Economic Advisor with Oxford Economics, having previously worked as Director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre and as Special Advisor to the First Minister. He started his lecturing career at Newcastle University. Peter Taylor is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Northumbria, having previously worked at Newcastle and Loughborough Universities. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Éditeur
ECPR Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1907301356
ISBN 13 
9781907301353
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
314
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