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Pillars and Electoral Behavior in Belgium: The Neighborhood Effect Revisited
David, Quentin; Van Hamme, Gilles
2011In Political Geography, 30 (4), p. 250-262
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Keywords :
Electoral geography; Neighborhood effect; Social embedding; Pillar; Belgium
Abstract :
[en] This paper explores the processes behind the neighborhood effect in electoral geography. Studies on neighborhood effect have largely ignored the local institutions and cultural milieu within which people are socialized. By taking into account the spatially differentiated social embedding of individuals, we are able to highlight the impact of local institutions on electoral behavior and restore the temporal dimension that has shaped the political specificities of places. In the case of Belgium, we show that social embedding (which took the very accomplished form of pillars) affects voting behavior through two different channels: a direct effect, coming from the family transmission of pillar values, and a contextual effect captured by a measure of the local embeddedness of the pillar.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Quantitative methods in economics & management
Political science, public administration & international relations
Identifiers :
UNILU:UL-ARTICLE-2012-238
Author, co-author :
David, Quentin ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) ; Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB > ECARES
Van Hamme, Gilles;  Université Libre de Bruxelles
Language :
English
Title :
Pillars and Electoral Behavior in Belgium: The Neighborhood Effect Revisited
Publication date :
2011
Journal title :
Political Geography
ISSN :
1873-5096
Publisher :
Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Volume :
30
Issue :
4
Pages :
250-262
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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