Rural Decline and Spatial Voting Patterns

  1. Lago, Ignacio 1
  2. Lago-Peñas, Santiago 2
  1. 1 Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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    Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04n0g0b29

    Localización xeográfica da organización Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  2. 2 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

    Localización xeográfica da organización Universidade de Vigo
Revista:
Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics

ISSN: 0031-2290

Ano de publicación: 2025

Volume: 78

Número: 1

Páxinas: 97-110

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.1093/PA/GSAE002 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Outras publicacións en: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics

Resumo

How does rural decline affect electoral politics? A well-known argument is that the growing geographical polarisation of populations between prospering major cities and declining hinterlands is emerging as a cleavage of electoral politics in developed countries. But prior work has focussed on specific outcomes of rural decline rather than examining whether the geographical distribution of political attitudes and behaviours within countries has become more uneven in the last decades. Using a measure of party nationalisation capturing spatial differences in electoral support across districts in OECD countries over the last 60 years, we find that a declining rural population increases differences in the geographical distribution of partisan support within countries. Nationalisation determines a party’s orientation toward distribution of public resources and support for region-specific interests.

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