Domestic Party Politics of Europeanisation

Informationen zum Autor By Peter Taylor and Graham Gudgin Klappentext 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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• Authors: Graham Gudgin, Erol Kuhlaci, Peter Taylor, Peter J. Taylor
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9781907301353
• ISBN: 978-1-907301-35-3
• Series: Ecpr Studies in European Polit; ECPR Classics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education