Seeking politically compatible neighbors? The role of neighborhood partisan composition in residential sorting

Political Geography

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 130-142

  Gimpel, James G ^a   Hui, Iris S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic sorting; Migration; Neighborhood preference; Political behavior; Political sorting; Residential relocation

Indexed keywords

NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RELOCATION; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN POLITICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944172659     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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