Noncontiguity and political architecture: the parliaments of small island states
Archipel ; Fédéralisme ; Géographie politique ; Ile ; Micro-Etat ; Régime politique ; Vie politique
Archipelago ; Federalism ; Island ; Microstate ; Political geography ; Political life ; Political regime
For a population of 31 small island states, this paper explores to what extent geography is reflected in the political architecture of legislatures that these political units choose to apply. It searches for possible effects of territorial
noncontiguity on federalism and bicameralism as well as the extent to which parliaments are recruited by means of apportionment and appointment. Although geography does not explain the totality of politics, it does affect the calculations and behaviour
[b1] Dept. of Political Science, Åbo Academy University, Åbo, Finlande
The political geography of presidential speeches, 1946-87
Conception du monde ; Discours présidentiel ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie politique ; Géopolitique ; Politique étrangère ; Relations internationales
Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; Political geography ; United States ; View of the world
A political communication-based view of the American presidency combined with a spatial-temporal framework of global politics provides the methodology for the analysis of presidential speeches. An environmental model, relating presidential behavior
as a function of the domestic, political and international conditions is used to explain variations in the foreign policy.
Identity politics and the religious right : hiding hate in the landscape
Culturel ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie politique ; Identité culturelle ; Idéologie ; Mouvement religieux ; Protestantisme ; Religion
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Ideology ; Political geography ; Protestantism ; Religion ; United States of America
In the empirical section, the A. examines the identity politics of a particular movement on the right, that of activist protestant fundamentalism. It is politically equated with the conservative politics of the Republican Party. He also examines how
Baptist fundamentalism and Liberty University conceives its difference from what is often referred to as the world; and how the formation of identity and its spaces become equated with non-religious conservative politics.
[b1] Dep. of Geography, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, Etats-Unis
Circonscription électorale ; Découpage administratif ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie politique ; Politique locale ; Politique étrangère ; Rôle de l'Etat
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)
Research and teaching in political geography: national standards and the resurgence of geography's wayward child
Enseignement de la géographie ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie politique ; Recherche
Political geography ; Research ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Comments on the roots of political geography, its decline and rebirth, and how this subfield is relevant to teaching geography in American schools. - (DWG)
International migration and the politics of admission and exclusion in postwar Europe
Demande d'asile ; Etat-nation ; Europe ; Géographie politique ; Immigration ; Migration internationale ; Naturalisation ; Pays d'accueil ; Politique de l'immigration ; Réfugiés ; Souveraineté
Destination country ; Europe ; Immigration ; Immigration policy ; International migration ; Naturalization ; Political geography ; Refugees ; Sovereignty
The paper provides a discussion of the complex economic, political and social forces impinging on the politics of admission and exclusion and an analysis of how these forces have been operating in a particular historical and geographical context
Election ; Etat local ; Géographie politique ; Idéologie ; Localité ; Politique ; Politique locale ; Pouvoir ; Relations sociales
Authorities ; Elections ; Ideology ; Local policy ; Locality ; Political geography ; Politics;Policy ; Social relations
The paper is concerned with the multiple intersections between political geography and the localities debate. Far from attempting an encyclopedic compendium of the relevant literature, it offers an attempt at a synthesis centered around three
Ecopolitical discourse : « environmental security » and political geography
Dégradation de l'environnement ; Environnement ; Etat ; Géographie politique ; Relations internationales ; Souveraineté ; Sécurité ; Territoire
Environment ; Environmental degradation ; International relations ; Political geography ; Security ; Sovereignty ; State ; Territory
Recent reviews of global politics and the future of security policy have repeatedly raised environmental themes. This juxtaposition raises numerous issues of relevance to geographical inquiry. Security is tied closely to themes of sovereignty
and political community understood in territorial terms.