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Space, place and pollbooks: incorporating a neglected electoral geography
Author(s) -
Dunham Phil
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.1997.tb00016.x
Subject(s) - voting , space (punctuation) , electoral geography , human geography , focus (optics) , principal (computer security) , critical geography , economic geography , sociology , historical geography , geography , political science , law , politics , computer science , physics , optics , operating system
Summary This paper calls for the incorporation of pre‐1872 (and especially early Victorian) elections into the electoral geography research agenda. It argues that early Victorian elections provide a rare opportunity to examine actual voting behaviour at the individual level and also constitute a valid focus of enquiry in their own right. The paper concludes by discussing some of the principal methodological implications of an historical electoral geography.