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'This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geographically. It is a major contribution to serious examination of a normative political issue from a geographical perspective. This is welcome above all because geography is a field whose cultural and economic branches, though often claiming the appellation "critical", are currently dominated by unexamined radical political fantasies' - John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles In an historically unprecedented way, democracy is now increasingly seen as a universal model of legitimate rule.This work addresses the key question: How can democracy be understood in theory and in practise? In three thematically organised sections, Spaces of Democracy uses a critical geographical imagination (informed by thinking on space, place, and scale) to interrogate the latest work in democratic theory. Key ideas and concepts discussed include globalization and transnationalism; representation; citizenship; liberalism; the city and public space; and the media. This volume comprises commissioned work by leading academics investigating democracy. Historical and comparative, animated by wider debates on globalization, it will facilitate the critical discussion of core questions on citizenship, the state, and democracy. Spaces of Democracy is essential reading for students of human geography, political science/international relations, and political sociology.
Electoral Geography in Electoral Studies: Putting Voters in Their Place
Electoral Geography in Electoral Studies: Putting Voters in Their Place
No general textbook on electoral geography has been published for more than two decades,1 although electoral concerns have received considerable coverage in general political geography texts (e.g. Taylor and Flint, 2000), studies of individual countries (e.g. Shelley et al., 1996), and works on individual elections/sequences of elections (Archer and Taylor, 1981; Johnston, Pattie and Allsopp, 1988; Johnston et al., 2001a). In Geography of Elections, Taylor and Johnston (1979) treated the subject as a linear sequence with three main components, each with its own geography; this was formalized in a series of flow diagrams in a parallel book, Political, Electoral and Spatial Systems (Johnston, 1979: ...
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