Tanzania's new politicalregionalism and introductory geography's portrayal of Southern Africa
Cultural studies ; Perception ; Political geography ; Regionalism ; Tanzania ; Uneven development
Regionalism in Tanzania's recent transition to multi-party politics is examined as a means of interrogating themes from political geography as they appear in introductory geography textbooks from North America. The texts can be misleading
, suggesting Tanzania's high potential for divisive regionalism and they require reconsideration, especially given the dramatic decade of transition since 1990. - (AJC)
Regional elections and political stability in Russia
Election ; Political geography ; Political life ; Political regime ; Region ; Russia
Election ; Géographie politique ; Russie ; Régime politique ; Région ; Vie politique
L'A. analyse en détail l'orientation politique des éxécutifs provinciaux en Russie. Politique menée dans les régions, résultats des élections régionales de 1996. Informations sur 68 provinces (49 oblasts, 6 krays, 10 okrugs autonomes et 1 oblast
[b1] Dep. od Political Science, Univ., Villanova, Etats-Unis
The rhetoric of regionalism: the Northern League in Italian politics, 1983-94
Election ; Electoral behaviour ; Italy ; Northern Italy ; Political geography ; Political life ; Political party ; Regionalism
The paper examines the rise of the League in terms of the movement's rhetoric and support. It shifted its rhetoric from regional separatism to national populism as it gained in electoral strength in northern Italy and as the establishment parties
collapsed. The original rhetoric has given way to a rhetoric of national political renewal, although localistic in its social roots.
The changing political landscape of California, 1968 to 2000
California ; Demographic structure ; Electoral behaviour ; Immigration ; Political geography ; Regional analysis ; Regionalization ; United States of America
three different settlement patterns in the 19th and 20th centuries. Validity of regions is tested to determine if new immigration and a general browning of the state have changed the dynamics of the political geography. A. finds state moving toward two
politicalregions : a racially diversified urban coast and a whiter rural interior. - (SLD)
Article contains an analysis of California's regional voting patterns and of explanatory population characteristics of the county level from 1968 to 2000. California is divided into three regions : Northern, Southern, and Interior, resulting from
The regional dimension of the socio-political urban-rural conflict in Slovakia
Behaviour ; Cleavage ; Election ; Electoral behaviour ; Political behaviour ; Political party ; Rural-urban relations ; Slovak Republic ; Social conflict ; Social geography ; Urban region
Clivage ; Comportement ; Comportement politique ; Comportement électoral ; Conflit social ; Election ; Géographie sociale ; Parti politique ; Région urbaine ; Slovaquie ; Ville-campagne
Ciudad-campo ; Comportamiento ; Comportamiento electoral ; Comportamiento político ; Conflicto social ; Elección ; Eslovaquia ; Geografía social ; Partido político ; Región urbana
at national, but also at the regional level. Evaluation of level and dynamics in socio-political cleavage between rural and urban space is one of the most important research ambitions of this study. - (EN)
Political behaviour of citizens is traditionally formed by a wide range of factors that influence their voting decision in the election. Dichotomy of both the space and society into the town and the countryside generates different election results
constantly. A key aim of this paper is to assess the extent of rurality concerning the electoral support of relevant political parties operating on the Slovak political scene after the groundbreaking elections held in 1998 until ballots of 2010 not only
Administrative division ; Electoral district ; Foreign policy ; Local policy ; Political geography ; State control ; United States of America
Topics include: a) changing regional responses to political events in American history; b) state and local political geography; c) representation and gerrymandering; d) U.S. and the world; e) post-cold war changes; f) presidential politics
in geographical perspective (with use of factor analysis) ; and g) political geography of the twenty-first century. - (DWG)
Language, occupation and regionalism as determinants of White political allegiances in South Africa : the 1981 and 1987 general elections
Changing patterns of political support for the ruling National Party in the course of the 1980s are presented. The geographical implications of these changes are examined. - (AJC)
Reconsidering regionalpolitical ecologies : toward a political ecology of the rural American West
Conflict ; Environment ; Human ecology ; Ideology ; Man-environment relations ; Regional geography ; Rural area ; Scale ; United States of America ; Western United States
of regionalpolitical ecologies. Regional approaches can retain the greatest strengths of recent political ecology in revealing the importance of local-scale social dynamics while situating these dynamics within broader scales of regional and global processes.
There is danger of moving political ecology toward even greater emphasis on specificity and difference and pushing consideration of broader-scale processes farther into the background. One response to these challenges is to reconsider the concept
Discourse in the production of political space : decolonizing the symbolism of provinces in Finland
Administration ; Administrative reform ; Finland ; Geopolitics ; Political geography ; Power ; Production of space ; Region ; Regionalization ; State
Administration ; Discours ; Etat ; Finlande ; Géographie politique ; Géopolitique ; Pouvoir ; Production de l'espace ; Réforme administrative ; Région ; Régionalisation
The A. wishes to capture the effective history and geography of a particular geopolitical discourse, on promoting the idea of a natural subdivision of the Finnish state territorial space. A reform of regional administration in Finland exemplifies
a state-centred discourse based on the savoir of regions as spontaneous organic entities.
Competition ; Europe ; Local authority ; Nation-state ; Political geography ; Political life ; Political power ; Region ; Regionalization ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban policy
Concurrence ; Etat-nation ; Europe ; Gestion urbaine ; Géographie politique ; Maire ; Politique urbaine ; Pouvoir local ; Pouvoir politique ; Région ; Régionalisation ; Vie politique ; Ville
This paper explores some issues in representing the geographies of mayoral power in contemporary Europe. It begins by summerizing the idea of a Europe of the Cities and an emerging new mayoral political class in Europe, and then discusses some
of the insights offered by cultural geography in conceptualizing this new agenda in urban politics.
A new himalayan state in India : popular perceptions of regionalism, politics and development
Autonomy ; Himalaya ; India ; Local development ; Perception ; Political geography ; Region ; Regionalism ; UttarPradesh
Autonomie ; Développement local ; Géographie politique ; Himalaya ; Inde ; Perception ; Région ; Régionalisme ; Uttar Pradesh ; Uttaranchal
is controversial, and this paper explores perceptions of ordinary hill people on regionalism and the political and developmental issues facing the proposed new state. - (SLD)
Données historiques et raisons indirectes qui influencent l'évolution politico-géographique de la Transnistrie. Les raisons directes pour la formation de la région séparatiste de Transnistrie.
Italian regionalism or Padanian nationalism - the political project of the Lega Nord in Italian politics
Electoral behaviour ; Far-right ; Ideology ; Italy ; Northern Italy ; Political geography ; Political party ; Region ; Regional development ; Regionalism
Comportement électoral ; Développement régional ; Extrême-droite ; Géographie politique ; Idéologie ; Italie ; Italie du Nord ; Parti politique ; Région ; Régionalisme
économiques de la région. Il s'agit d'une géographie et d'une histoire construite (et en partie inventée).
Regional devolution has been a major issue in many Latin American countries as a way to decentralize the power structures. In Chile this has been strongly influenced by geopolitical ideas in the Chilean military. In Bolivia, regionalization has
grown of regional protests and mobilizations, and contravenes the idea that decentralization leads to national disintegration. - (DWG)
Transportation and political fragmentation in urban regions
Chicago ; Croissance urbaine ; Etats-Unis ; Gestion urbaine ; Géographie humaine ; Illinois ; Pouvoir local ; Région urbaine ; Siècle XIX ; Siècle XX ; Transport urbain
Avec une étude plus poussée sur Chicago et sa région depuis la fin du XIX siècle.