Marston is Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tuscon. Byron Milleris Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Studies Program, University of Calgary, Alberta.
1 Geography and Democracy: An Introduction
A third example of the displacement of democracy in geography is recent research on geographies of citizenship. Second, there is the question of the extent to which the geographical imaginaries of human geography and political theory differ.
2 Global Democratization: Measuring and Explainingthe Diffusion of Democracy
Instead, the beginning of the twenty-first century marks a period of stability in the democratic trend. Together, the other countries (partially and non-democratic) make up about half of the global polity and almost a third belong to the most repressive categories (non-democratic).
3 Electoral Geography in Electoral Studies
Putting Voters in Their Place
Once their political identity is established, many tend to vote the same way in a series of elections—what classic studies of the American voter called the “normal vote.” This was the case, for example, in the US South for much of the twentieth century, where whites were socialized into certain attitudes toward blacks, and into the (generally unquestioned) appreciation that white supremacy could be maintained by to vote for the Democrats. rather than for the Republican party, associated with the Northern cause in the Civil War: see Key, 1949; Wright, 1977). King's method has been used in studies of Nazi party voting in 1930s Germany (O'Loughlin, 2000).
In Britain, for example, much of the research is done by party activists visiting voters on their doorsteps, although increasing use is made of the telephone (Denver and Hands, 1997). This is known as tactical voting in Britain and as strategic voting in the US (Cox, 1997). The geography of federal spending in the United States of America. eds), Dictionary of Human Geography.
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4 Representation, Law and Redistrictingin the United States
A territorial basis for representation as well as for governance itself is a fundamental property of many Western democracies, particularly in the US and the UK. In the US, states are the only permanent units of representation for the United States Senate. Similar to the UK, Democrats in the US tend to win more seats than votes, due to their dominance of low turnout inner-city districts.
As unhappy as we are with the unfairness of electoral systems, it was far worse in the past. By 1960, the differences in the United States were as large as 400:1 (for example, for state senate districts in California). So important are the two dominant parties in the United States that commissions usually take a bipartisan form.
So, together, race, blocking of census data and GIS, and partisan greed resulted in a deterioration of the quality of district systems. But several factors will reduce the degree of bias and unfairness in America's electoral system.
5 Citizens and the State: Citizenship Formationsin Space and Time
A good example of the latter case can be found in the passage of Proposition 187 in California in 1994. The expansion of individual liberties into a 'national institution' was one of the main components of the rise of statehood. We also argue that one of the most effective ways to understand the concept of citizenship is through the interaction between the citizen and the state, and the power of the state to determine who does and who does not belong to the national community.
In the early nineteenth century, women (as well as freed slaves, children, and propertyless men) were not considered citizens. The role of women was limited to the private sphere of the family and that of men to public life. The second case study reveals the rise of the neoliberal (entrepreneurial) state and the ways in which it has been pressured by another group of powerful transnational actors to open up new possibilities in support of capitalist production (relegating previous commitments to social production ). reproduction on the market).
The very visibility of the business immigrants produced a huge conflict about the official state discourse on the rights and duties of citizenship. Another point of difficulty for the state arose as a result of the obvious collaboration between state policy and the interests of capital.
6 Open Borders and Free Population Movement
A Challenge for Liberalism
Although there was a large prudential element to Nett's argument for the right to free movement, with the recognition of its costs. Rawls started with the conventional system of natural liberties, in which careers are open to talented people, with all persons having equal opportunities in the formal sense of the same legal rights. Restrictions on crossing borders are part of the structure responsible for maintaining uneven development.
Carens' first prediction paves the way for strategic modifications of an unrestricted right of people to move and live where they chose, in the interests of the core values of liberal egalitarianism. It is from the communitarianism espoused by Sandel and others that a more powerful critique of the right to free movement has emerged. Therefore, communitarianism doubts the very idea of individual rights, such as free movement.
And this closure can be made at the level of the sovereign state to protect the communities within. To think about the ethics of migration in the context of the individual, it is necessary to think of the latter as an independent decision maker about his or her future;.
7 Cities as Spaces of Democracy
Complexity, Scale and Governance
The narrative's current relevance refers to its continuation in a post- or less-national world (Taylor, 1995). Third, most current urban policy debates emphasize the ongoing pluralization of political actors involved in the governance of cities. They complicate many simpler connections between urban and democratic spaces.
The next section will discuss the important issue of the relationship between urban autonomy and democracy. Yet some of the most authoritarian forms of political power over the past century have been firmly grounded in the promotion of autonomy at various scales. The third theme I want to consider is the decentering of the contemporary institutions of urban governance.
The third problem of democracy in the context of the new government is connected with undoubtedly the most democratic aspects. As in the first two parts of the chapter, the complexity creates problems for any straightforward view of cities as sites of democracy.
8 Spaces of Public and Private: Locating Politics
The second part of the chapter considers the implications of the spread of democracy for our understanding of the politics of public and private. Against these arguments for building a more complex understanding of publicity are those who argue that the idea of public and private should be rejected because it is meaningless and confusing and reflects the problems of dichotomous thinking (Rose, 1993; Gibson-Graham, 1996). . A fuller theorization of the spatiality of the public sphere must, as we have noted, begin with the understanding that public and private spaces should not be conflated with public and private actions (Staeheli, 1996).
Yet more was happening in the private spaces of the house than just entertaining political topics. The second example also speaks to the nature of public space and the ways in which it does or does not facilitate discussion of the public interest. The second ideology focused solely on exclusion, as the public spaces of the square were regulated in function.
The politics of images: the creation of audiences in the age of popular media. Gender, Citizenship, and the Formation of the American Nation, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
9 The Geopolitics of Democracy and Citizenshipin Latin America
Three weeks after the 1994 national elections, the Director of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), Dr Jorge Carpizo, claimed that the country should be proud of having produced the most open and systematized elections in its history, a view echoed by the most national and international observers (Carpizo, 1994). However, research has identified numerous limitations to the consolidation or deepening of 'universal' democratization. Concerns about the characteristics of democracy and citizenship have focused attention on the expectations placed on civil society for the broadening of the public sphere (Calhoun.
An angry section of the crowd is informed that they can send their complaints to the IFE in Mexico City. As such, they have become a public space beyond the instrumental boundaries of democracy, in which other spaces (in this case, the nation, Chiapas, the home) are discussed as part of the public sphere. For the state, the barrios were presented as a people with a fixed and recognizable identity that could be dissected to retain some elements for the spectacle of the San Francisco project and ignore others.
The discourses, verbal and graphic, of UCL and others emphasized how the barrios differed from the representations of the San Francisco project. It is more revealing that, despite reference to the distinction between the political and the political, that much of the literature that analyzes social movements and identity politics is not about spatiality.
10 Media, Democracy and Representation
Disembodying the Public
The public sphere has a very precise meaning in The structural transformation of the public sphere. The main limitation of Habermas's original account of the public sphere is his tendency to derive the normative significance of public forms of deliberation and decision-making from very specific historical models (see Calhoun, 1993; Hohendahl. In particular The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere privileges a specific set of cultural institutions shaped by inequality of both class and gender.
This cultural theory of democratic competence underlies the tragic narrative of the decline of the public sphere in the second part of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, in which the gendered subtext of Habermas's account becomes clear. In turn, the critical function of the public sphere is progressively eroded as the media of public debate are transformed into mediums for the expression of particularistic interests rather than the formation of a universally agreed common interest. Habermas's narrative of the re-feudalization of the public sphere is therefore characterized by a deep distrust of representation (Peters 1993).
The textuality of communicative action is the source of the founding ambivalence of Habermas' original account of the media and the public sphere (Lee, 1992; Saccamano, 1991). This sense of the performative character of democratic representation also points to the crucial dimension of temporal non-coincidence of deliberation and decision implied by the concept of public sphere.