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  • Social structure and suburban spatio-political conflicts in the United States
  • Political geography of the United States
  • 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)
  • Noncontiguity and political architecture: the parliaments of small island states
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Research and teaching in political geography: national standards and the resurgence of geography's wayward child
  • 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)
  • The Geography for Life standards and American political geography
  • Cultural studies ; Electoral geography ; Political geography ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
  • The intersection of geography and politics in American public policy is explained and applied to the National Geography Standards. - (DWG)
  • Delimitation ; Election ; Electoral district;Electoral ward ; Political geography ; Political party ; United States
  • Diffusing the light of liberty: the geography of political lecturing in the Chartist movement
  • Cultural studies ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Political geography ; Political life ; United Kingdom
  • Lecturing activity was central to the ambitions of thre Chartist movement for universal suffrage in early Victorian Britain because it was emblematic of Chartist political aims. The article describes the organizational geography of the Chartist
  • Identity politics and the religious right : hiding hate in the landscape
  • 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.
  • Agitate! Agitate! Organize! Political travellers and the construction of a national politics, 1839-1880
  • Geopolitical strategy ; Historical geography ; Locality ; Nineteenth Century ; Political geography ; Political life ; United Kingdom
  • and of activism among agricultural labourers in the early 1870s. These extra-parliamentary campaigns are compared with more formal political activity.
  • Teaching the political geography of poverty
  • Family structure ; Illinois ; Living standard ; Location ; Political geography ; Poverty ; Rural area ; Social geography ; United States of America
  • Census counts and apportionment : the politics of representation in the United States... continued
  • Policy ; Population census ; State ; United States of America
  • Census counts are used in the United States as the basis for a derived apportionment count, which is employed by the president to allocate seats in the House of Representatives across the 50 States. This practice has been challenged in the courts
  • Geopolitical realities and United States foreign policy. The 2002 Annual Political Geography Lecture
  • Conflict ; Foreign policy ; Geopolitics ; Geostrategy ; International relations ; Nation-state ; Political geography ; Sovereignty ; Terrorism ; United States of America
  • The thesis of this article is that the current political alignments made by the USA in pursuit of the War on Terrorism are short-term expedients. These may mask the more fundamental geopolitical forces and structures that bear upon the processes
  • Mapa polityczna swiata ze stanowiska prawa miedzynarodowego. (The political map of the world from the viewpoint of the international law)
  • Carte politique ; Droit international ; Géographie humaine ; Géographie politique ; Législation ; Monde ; Unité géopolitique
  • Establishing geopolitical units which, according to the international law, should be presented on a political map of the world. The author gives the definition of notions and categorizes those unites, putting them into two fundamental groups
  • the states, and the dependencies occupy an insignificant place of the world political map that haven't the most important attribute of a state. (d'après l'A.).
  • Local politics and the demand for public education
  • Demand ; Education ; Finance ; Local government ; Local policy ; Model ; Public expenditure ; Public sector ; United States of America ; Virginia ; Wage inequality
  • The paper uses a political fragmentation index to calculate how political power affects educational spending in Virginia. The methodology allows the comparison of the distribution of political power and considers political fragmentation. Using
  • Cleaning up after the Celtic Tiger : scalar fixes in the political ecology of Tiger economies
  • Capitalism ; Economy ; Environmental management ; Ireland ; Political ecology ; Territorial unit ; Waste treatment
  • Using a theoretically provocative case study that examines the politics of waste management in Ireland, the paper argues that in reflecting upon the role of such culture wars in the constitution of dominant social relations in Tiger states
  • , the concepts of scalar strategies and struggles over scale may prove useful. Ecological projects too are fundamentally produced by and implicated in the structuration of scale. In calling for dialogue between political ecological studies and recent work
  • in geography, the paper hopes to contribute towards the development of a political ecology of Tiger states.
  • The political geography of macro-level turnout in American political development
  • Behaviour ; Citizenship ; Electoral behaviour ; Participation ; Political geography ; Political life ; Scale ; Spatial structure ; United States of America
  • Family farms in the web of community: exploring the rural political economy of the United States
  • The electoral college - not just every four years : some exercises in political geography
  • Election ; Pedagogy ; Political geography ; Practical work ; Teaching of geography ; United States
  • The Electoral College is an American political institution entrusted to casting the votes for the U.S. president on the basis of the popular vote in each state. The A. discusses the shifts in number of votes as a result of census changes. Strategy
  • Integration and disintegration: a political geography of the European Union
  • Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union ; France ; Political geography ; Region ; Sovereignty ; Spain ; State ; United Kingdom
  • Description of moves toward integration in the European Union and discusses the implications of those trends for the future of the sovereign state. Spain, France and the United Kingdom are used as examples. - (DWG)