The relationships and interactions between rural and urban spaces have long been of
interest in the territorial sciences. However, the approaches taken to these questions have …

Economic change over the past 20 years has rendered many individuals and territories
vulnerable, leading to greater interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising …

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 …

Mining activities can have significant environmental costs, making mining uneconomical due
to the high costs of preventing, reducing, or compensating for environmental impacts. To …

This paper examines whether beliefs that local decision-makers are perceived to favour
certain groups or districts over others, are linked to anti-establishment party preferences …

In many advanced economies, citizens are deeply politically divided on the basis of where
they live, and there is growing concern that these divisions are reinforced by place-based …

Rural areas have often been labelled by the literature as 'left-behind'areas or 'places that
don't matter', implicitly suggesting that residents of these communities feel neglected by …

Abstract The 2021 German Federal Election saw an increasing variation in voting behavior
between both age groups and geographic groups. This paper brings these developments …

In Sweden, the anti-establishment party, the Sweden Democrats, has seen growing support
in the past four parliamentary elections. This rise is thought to be part of a broader trend …

This study is the first to measure urban-rural electoral divides in a way that facilitates
comparisons beyond majoritarian democracies of the UK and North America. Based on …