The spatial approach to electoral analysis

McPhail, I. R.

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“…Important to this earlier work was empirically demonstrating the importance of a spatial approach for electoral analysis (McPhail, 1974), captured in the composition versus context debate. Those in the Reynolds (1990), see also Forest (2018) Leib and Quinton (2011) Agnew (1990) Nicley ( 2011) former camp argued that we best understand spatialised voting patterns by looking at the composition of individual characteristics in an area, with any remaining variance likely to be so small it can be safely classed as epiphenomenal (King, 1996).…”

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Reckoning with the digital turn in electoral geography

Temple

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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The sub-discipline of electoral geography contains research threads that draw on different theoretical, philosophical, and methodological traditions. I link these threads to the ‘digital turn’ that is occurring in the electoral landscape and in the discipline of geography itself. The use of digital technology is increasingly shaping electioneering and data regimes, providing new conceptual challenges concerning the spatial mediation and subsequent knowledge politics of voting and campaigning. Responding to these challenges requires not only building on the subfield’s tradition of interdisciplinarity but also on strengthening intra-disciplinary dialogue, in particular working across the quantitative–qualitative divide.

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