NDLI: An electoral geography of Western Europe

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Author	Vandermotten, Christian Lockhart, Pablo Medina
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	The European Parliament elections give the opportunity to map voting behaviour in Western Europe. The main methodological difficulty is related to the classification of the parties. The cleavage theory is not a sufficient basis for an operational typology. The left-right axis remains an important basis for a classification. We have discriminated three groups of parties (the left, including the ecologists; the moderate centre-right and classical right; a growing populist reactionary right and the extreme-right, with a different geographical pattern). Beyond those families, the regionalist parties can also be isolated. The green voting pattern is more specific to the ‘central’ regions and not linked to that of the traditional left, which is related to the traditions of the workers' movement or more specific to the “peripheral” regions. In general, the metropolitan regions vote more to the left than the surrounding regions, today more and more often on the basis of an intellectual voting pattern, including some well to-do urban and periurban districts. The centre-right and classical right voting pattern designate two main spaces: a conservative mid-European area, with a strong Christian-democracy in the Catholic countries with a quite recent State building (however recently collapsed in Italy), and rural peripheral spaces, mainly those dominated for a long time by small familial rural enterprises and/or by strong and conservative religious practices. At the European scale, the new populist reactionary right is stronger in the `central' regions than the traditional extreme right, even if the latter is also present in some central deprived urban and old industrial districts.
Starting Page	93
Ending Page	105
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03432521
Journal	GeoJournal
Volume Number	52
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15729893
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2000-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Hydrogeology Ecology Environmental Management Methodology of the Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development

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