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Space and voting patterns: urban influences on periurban voting behaviour in the Romanian 2014 presidential elections

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  • Aurelian Giugal

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Post-communist sociological and electoral geography studies have ignored the importance of physical geography on voting behaviour. By analysing the 2014 Romanian presidential elections, this study shows that the voting behaviour of rural communities located in close proximity to cities is different than the electoral behaviour of communities located at larger distances from urban centres. From an electoral standpoint, rural communities located on city peripheries behave in very similar ways to their neighbouring urban settlements. There is a ‘neighbourhood effect at work here’, with city managing to impose voting behaviours. Accordingly, this study points towards the need for new and more complex investigations that incorporate ecological data in reaching their conclusions.

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  • Aurelian Giugal, 2015. "Space and voting patterns: urban influences on periurban voting behaviour in the Romanian 2014 presidential elections," Impact of Socio-economic and Technological Transformations at National, European and International Level (ISETT), Institute for World Economy, Romanian Academy, vol. 6.
    • Handle: RePEc:iem:imptrs:v:6:y:2015:id:2822000009374055
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    Keywords

    presidential elections; votes; electoral behaviour; neighbourhood effect; Romania;
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    • A30 - General Economics and Teaching - - Multisubject Collective Works - - - General

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