City-suburban electoral polarization in Great Britain, 1950-2001

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 500-517

  Walks, R Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

City suburban polarization; Electoral geography; Great Britain; Inner cities; Regression analysis; Suburbanization; Suburbs; Voting

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; INNER CITY AREA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; SUBURBANIZATION; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745253764     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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