The Electorate in Poland's Large and Medium-Sized cities and Towns and its Influence on the Results of the 2007 Parliamentary Elections

• Authors: Roman Matykowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Urbanization is regarded among the most significant factors affecting election-related behaviour in Poland. In order to identify the importance of Poland's municipal electorate, a procedure of reverse elimination was applied to the electorates of successive largest cities in Poland, followed by a structure of supporting the strongest political parties at each stage of the cities' rank elimination. Whenever each successive elimination is followed by dwindling support for a given party, this party is referred to as pro-metropolitan.

Keywords

EN

Poland; urbanization; pro-urban and anti-urban parties; rank-size rule

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 103-111

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-07-05

Contributors

author

Roman Matykowski

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10089-010-0008-z