Revitalizing Electoral Geography

Dr. Barney Warf is Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. He has diverse interests in the broad domain of human geography, particularly political economy and social theory, and has published papers concerning elections, the U.S. electoral college, and voting technology. Dr. Jonathan Leib is Associate Professor of Geography at Old Dominion University. A political geographer by training, his research interests are in political and cultural geographic change in the American South. He has published papers and book chapters concerning issues of redistricting, voting rights, and elections in the American South.

Part I Conceptual Foundations; Chapter 1 Introduction, Barney Warf, Jonathan Leib; Chapter 2 On the Shores of the “Moribund Backwater”?: Trends in Electoral Geography Research Since 1990, Jonathan Leib, Nicholas Quinton; Part II Electoral Geography Outside of the US; Chapter 3 Electoral Systems, Geography, and Political Behaviour: United Kingdom Examples, Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie; Chapter 4 Spatial Regression for Electoral Studies: The Case of the Italian Lega Nord, Michael Shin, John Agnew; Chapter 5 Elections and Cultural Political Economy: The Political Geography of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego in the Galicia Autonomous Community, Erinn P. Nicley; Chapter 6 Place, Identity, and Taiwan’s Presidential Elections, 1996–2008, Daniel McGowin; Chapter 7 The Power of Definition: The Puerto Rican Diaspora and the Island’s Status Referenda, Luis D. Sánchez-Ayala; Part III Electoral Geography in the US; Chapter 8 Class, Ethnicity, Religion and Place in the 2008 US Presidential Election, Barney Warf; Chapter 9 The Emerging Geography of How Americans Cast their Ballots, Toby Moore; Chapter 10 The 2008 US Presidential Primary Elections in Geographic Perspective, Fred M. Shelly, Heather Hollen; Chapter 11 Electoral Alignments and Place-Based Cleavages in Statewide Votes in Alabama, Nicholas Quinton, Gerald R. Webster; Chapter 12 Sexual Politics and the Sunshine State: Electoral Geographies of Florida’s Marriage Protection Amendment, Thomas Chapman;