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Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organisation of Elections

Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organisation of Elections

by Peter Taylor and Graham Gudgin
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Age range: 22+ years old Publication Date: 01/09/2012

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In many elections - especially those using single-member constituency systems - the allocation of seats is incommensurate with each party's share of the votes cast. Seats, votes and the spatial organisation of elections provides a convincing, rigorous analysis of this disproportionality which has not been improved on since its publication over thirty years ago. Its formal analysis, illustrated by empirical examples from a range of countries, stresses the importance of three geographies as key influences on how votes are translated into seats: the geography of partisan support (where people with different political persuasions cluster); the homogeneity of those clusters; and their relative size. Its republication makes this classic piece of spatial (political) science available to contemporary audiences, for whom it is as relevant as when the book first appeared in 1979; Ron Johnston's introductory essay sets the work in context and identifies its importance as the foundation for three decades of subsequent work into this key feature of electoral system operation.About the authors GRAHAM GUDGIN is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Business Research and Senior Economic Advisor with Oxford Economics, having previously worked as Director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre and as Special Advisor to the First Minister.
He started his lecturing career at Newcastle University, where his collaboration with Peter Taylor began. PETER TAYLOR is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Northumbria, having previously worked at Newcastle and Loughborough Universities. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
ISBN:
9781907301353
9781907301353
Category:
Comparative politics
Age range:
22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
ECPR Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
314
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x15mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor studied Nutritional Medicine under Dr L Plaskett and, while practising in the west of England, wrote two books. Overweight? Overtired? The solution and What's in my Food? were both written in response to the grave concern Peter has regarding the physical pain and misery many of his clients suffered due to poor food choices.

Since that time, climate change has become the major challenge for humanity. Having read reports from The EAT-Lancet Commission and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during 2019, it became clear to Peter that food production and consumption has an enormous impact on the health of people and their planet. He found that making small adjustments to what we eat can collectively have a significant effect on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It was this that persuaded Peter to create the concept for a book of recipes which can encourage those changes, alongside some stark facts from the reports to reinforce the need for more self-restraint in our food choices.

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