GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: United States Presidential Election, 2016, Protestantism
5 Dec 2018
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Electoral geography: the study of the dual interactions between geography and political structures as they impact electoral outcomes: how spatial patterns of social characteristics affect. Spatial-political polarization: political polarization: reduced exposure to contrary views and less likely to discuss politics with those who have opposing views. Facilitated by social geographic processes such as residential segregation= social isolation in neighbourhoods and social environments. Segregation increases political polarization and alters the electoral geography of neighbourhoods: the role of media in political polarization, the most conservative people are getting information from conservative organizations, the liberals are getting information from liberals increasing the polarization. In many political systems: political units elect a representative to government; this person should represent the opinions of the population of the area. Ideally the people elected will be the representative in the house of power: homogeneous: this system works relatively well, the population within the riding are mostly the same, heterogeneous: more challenging.
