Spatial Inequalities and Electoral Preferences in Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F25%3A00618682" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/25:00618682 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://periodicos.uff.br/geographia/article/view/66949" target="_blank" >https://periodicos.uff.br/geographia/article/view/66949</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/GEOgraphia2025.v27i58.a66949" target="_blank" >10.22409/GEOgraphia2025.v27i58.a66949</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial Inequalities and Electoral Preferences in Central Europe

Original language description

This study describes the electoral implications of spatial polarization in Poland, the Czech Republic and eastern Germany. Empirically, itnhighlights the voting behavior of residents from selected territories as examples of disadvantaged regions in these three countries, and the conditions that shape such behavior. We explore whether these implications can be explained by argument on populist preferences in peripheralized areas. An analysis of the results of the last three elections to the Polish, Czech and German parliament was used. In each country, we selected two territorial units representing less developed areas and contrasted them with a socioeconomically privileged area and the nationwide results. In Germany and the Czech Republic, support for populist parties is well above average in the peripheralized regions studied, and low in the dynamically developing places. There is no single political force that exploits voter discontent in lagging areas. Depending on the prevailing cultural and socio-economic conditions, these forces may be more right-wing, more left-wing or even rather centrist. In Poland support for clearly populist parties in disadvantaged regions reaches similar levels as in the rich community. Political differences are primarily visible on the conservatism/liberalism axis.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GF23-42452L" target="_blank" >GF23-42452L: Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GEOgraphia-UFF

ISSN

1517-7793

e-ISSN

2674-8126

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

58

Country of publishing house

BR - BRAZIL

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

e65604

UT code for WoS article

001451713000002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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