INGS1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethos Books, Asian Survey, Quantitative Revolution
23 Dec 2018
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Week 9 electoral geography, democracy and citizenship: the case of singapore"s. *jones, m. , jones, r. and woods, m. (2004). Place and politics : chapter 8 democracy, participation and citizenship" (pp 136-148) (*note not the entire chapter required for reading) *please watch this video analysing the results of ge2015: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=2ws-gf3iu7e. Singapore in 2011: a new normal in politics?" asian survey , 52: 220-226. Voting in change: politics of singapore"s 2011 general. Electoral geographies explores the practice and organization of electoral competition. In the 1950s-60s, infusion of positivist approaches to the study of electoral geography. Quest for empirics was assisted by the quantitative revolution numerical data produced for the mapping and projecting of voter patterns critiques: Mere descriptions of the spatial patterns of votes with little or no concern for wider issues (johnston et al, 1990) Lack of engagement with other social theories to explain voter behaviour.
