We provide a mixed-methods, comparative analysis of the development of the urban-rural
electoral cleavage in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States from the early 20th …

Far-Right Ecologism explains how the ongoing mainstreaming of the far right has prompted
greater engagement with a range of topics, including the environment. Behind the façade of …

Aspiring dominant-party regimes often institute major institutional and political reforms at the
national level to ensure they retain control. However, subnational politics is an important …

This review of the historical studies of cleavages and seeks to bridge the gap between the
historical study of cleavages and frozen cleavage theory and the post‑‑communist states of …

In recent years, protest voting, voting for populist parties and, specifically for Europe, votes
for parties opposed to European integration, have increased substantially. This has focused …

This article examines the territorialization of party replacement in the Czech Republic
between 2010 and 2017. Using spatial analytical techniques, we found that despite the …

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 …

This contribution is a complex analysis of the geographic voting patterns in the 2020 Slovak
parliamentary election using methods such as Geographically Weighted Regression …

This paper analyses spatial differences in the voting results in Poland in the 2015
parliamentary elections. Eleven clusters defining different support profiles are determined …

We explore the foundations of the urban-rural political gulf, which is well-documented in the
United States and other western democracies. We theorize that it is anchored in the variable …