Political, electoral, and spatial systems: An essay in political geography
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| adam_text | Titel: Political, electoral, and spatial systems
Autor: Johnston, Ronald J.
Jahr: 1979
Contents
Part I Geography and Government: Some Preliminaries
1. INTRODUCTION: GOVERNMENT AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF
SOCIAL WELL-BEING 3
Social well-being and its geography 3
The determinants of social well-being 5
2. GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY: A SYSTEMS APPROACH 10
The growth of government 10
The political system: a systems approach 16
Politics, territories, elections and well-being 19
Conclusions 23
Part II The Two Systems
3. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 27
The functions of local government 27
The origins of local government 28
Separate and independent 34
Externalities, free riders, and spillovers 41
The problem of finance 44
Political variations 47
Conclusions 52
4. ELECTIONS: TRANSLATING VOTES INTO SEATS 53
Electoral bias 53
Types of electoral system 54
Electoral systems and electoral bias 56
Non-partisan bias 58
Partisan bias 63
Conclusions 71
Part III The Systems in Operation
5. VARIATIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING 75
A model of how much governments spend 76
Politicians, voters, and policies 81
The Downs model and government spending 85
Spending in the American States 87
Local authority spending in Britain 99
Conclusions 104
viii Political, Electoral, and Spatial Systems
6. THE SPATIAL PATTERN OF A GOVERNMENTS SPENDING 106
Some simple models 106
Campaigning and canvassing 110
Pragmatic politics: the geography of allocations 113
Power to the people 121
Patronage 129
The representative and the pork barrel 129
Conclusions 137
Part IV Reorganizing the Systems
LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION 141
Local government reorganization: some general themes 141
Local government reorganization in Britain s centralized democracy 144
American local government reorganization 150
Conclusions 158
MANIPULATION AND REORGANIZATION OF ELECTORAL
SYSTEMS 159
Electoral engineering I: malapportionment 159
Electoral engineering II: gerrymandering 172
Changing the population distribution 183
Changing the electoral law 184
Conclusions 189
Part V Finale
9. CONCLUSIONS 193
BIBLIOGRAPHY 199
INDEX 219
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