A TimeSpace for electoral geography: economic restructuring, political agency and the rise of the Nazi party.
Using the electoral rise of the Nazi party in Weimar Germany as an example, this paper proposes the use of cyclico-ideological TimeSpace from Immanuel Wallerstein for the analysis of electoral geography. Elections are viewed as acts of political agency within structural constraints. From a world-sys...
| Publicado en: | Political Geography Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 301 - 330 |
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Elsevier Science
March 2001
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