GEOG 1HA3 Lecture 23: lecture 23
22 Jan 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 electoral outcomes and political decisions. How the geographical structure of the election system affects electoral results. Social-spatial voting patterns: how social groups are reflected in social outcomes. Political polarization: the vast and growing gap between liberals and conservatives is a defining feature of politics in many countries today. Views of republicans and democrats are vastly different: gap between them is getting larger. 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: the poor living with the poor, rich living with the rich, racial groups segregated into one part of town. Segregation increases political polarization, and alters the electoral geography of neighbourhoods.
