Electoral Geography: The Concept And Its Evolution In Post-Communist Romania
Electoral Geography: The Concept And Its Evolution In Post-Communist Romania

Summary/Abstract: Since the middle of the XX century, the electoral behaviour has been analyzed from the point of view of political economy, political sociology, and political psychology. The electoral geography, taken from the perspective of spatiality of voting and not as an academic discipline, completes this electoral frame and its intention is not to replace the standard methods with new ones, but rather to complement, in the sense that space represents an important factor in order to comprehend the voting behaviours. The present paper presents three distinct parts. Firstly, we make a short presentation of the nowadays electoral studies; secondly we introduce the concept of electoral geography and the subfields included in it, so that in the last part to examine the evolution of electoral geography studies in Romania, asserting its weak points, those branches of electoral geography less or even at all developed in the electoral geography.

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