| Reviews |
| - '...this excellent book is sure to become the standard text in the field...it certainly should be on the shelves of all with a professional interest in British elections (including journalists and party officials) as well as being required reading for students taking courses in the field.' - Political Studies Review
- 'Just about every question one would want to ask about electoral geography is answered here with a plethora of innovative and imaginative analyses' - Political Studies Review
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| Description | | - Accessible to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
- Includes up-to-date data and examples
- Contains numerous useful figures and tables
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Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and neighbours, and with what effect? Does the geography of well-being influence the geography of party support? Do parties try to talk to all voters at election time, or are they interested only in the views of a small number of voters living in a small
number of seats? Is electoral participation in decline, and how does the geography of the vote affect this? How can a party win a majority of seats in Parliament without a majority of votes in the country? Putting Voters in their Place
explores these questions by placing the analysis of electoral behaviour into its geographical context. Using information from the latest elections, including
the 2005 General Election, the book shows how both voters and parties are affected by, and seek to influence, both national and local forces. Trends are set in the context of the latest research and scholarship on electoral behaviour. The book also reports on new research findings.
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Readership: Scholars and students of politics and political geography; specialists in elections
| Contents |
Introduction
1.
Models of voting
2.
Bringing geography in
3.
The geography of voting: regions, places, and neighbourhoods
4.
Talking together and voting together
5.
The local economy and the local voter
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Party campaigns and their impact
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To Vote or Not to Vote: The Problem of Turnout
8.
Votes into seats
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Ron Johnston, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol and
Charles Pattie, Professor of Geography, University of Sheffield
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