{"product_id":"seats-votes-and-the-spatial-organisation-of-elections-9781907301353","title":"Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organisation of Elections","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Taylor | Graham Gudgin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: ECPR Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: ECPR Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn many elections - especially those using single-member constituency systems - the allocation of seats is incommensurate with each party's share of the votes cast. Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections provides a convincing, rigorous analysis of this disproportionality which has not been improved on since its publication over 30 years ago. Its formal analysis, illustrated by empirical examples from a range of countries, stresses the importance of three geographies as key influences on how votes are translated into seats: the geography of partisan support (where people with different political persuasions cluster); the homogeneity of those clusters; and their relative size. Its re-publication makes this classic piece of spatial (political) science available to contemporary audiences, for whom it is as relevant as when the book first appeared in 1979; Ron Johnston's introductory essay sets the work in context and identifies its importance as the foundation for three decades of subsequent work into this key feature of electoral system operation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECPR Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46863094546583,"sku":"9781907301353","price":5935.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781907301353.webp?v=1769968826","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/seats-votes-and-the-spatial-organisation-of-elections-9781907301353","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}