Ethno-Political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region: An Analysis of Voting Behavior

Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; Ham, Maarten van

doi:10.1080/01629778.2015.1027935

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“…It also shows that Lithuanians are 2.8 times more likely to live in the declining regions than other ethnic groups. This can be explained by the fact that ethnic minorities are mostly concentrated in the cities, and especially in the Vilnius city-region (Ubarevičienė, Burneika, & van Ham, 2015). Model 1 also shows that single-person households and households with five or more members are more likely to live in declining regions than in other regions.…”

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Population decline in Lithuania

Ubarevičienė,

van Ham

2018

Architecture and the Built Environment

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Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost one-quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy-makers and planners. The aim of this study is to obtain more insight into the recent processes of socio-spatial change and the role of selective migration in Lithuania. The main focus is on understanding who lives in those regions which are rapidly losing population, and who is most likely to leave these regions. This is one of the first studies to use individual-level Lithuanian census data from 2001 and 2011. We found that low socio-economic status residents and older residents dominate the population of shrinking regions, and unsurprisingly that the most ‘successful’ people are the most likely to leave such regions. This process of selective migration reinforces the negative downward spiral of declining regions. As a result, socio-spatial polarization is growing within the country, where people with higher socio-economic status are increasingly overrepresented in the largest city-regions, while the elderly and residents with a lower socio-economic status are overrepresented in declining rural regions. This paper provides empirical evidence of selective migration and increasing regional disparities in Lithuania. While the sociospatial changes are obvious in Lithuania, there is no clear strategy on how to cope with extreme population decline and increasing regional inequalities within the country.

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Population decline in Lithuania

Ubarevičienė,

van Ham

2018

Architecture and the Built Environment

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“…The study of electoral behavior on a fine geographic scale has also been widely developed among politicians, particularly following the work of Stanyer (1975) and Busteed (1975). Whether it be voter behavior within a city (Charney and Malkinson 2015; Sonenshein and Drayse 2006; Ubarevičienė et al 2015; Weaver 2014) or electoral dynamics between cities, peri-urban areas and the countryside (De Maesschalck 2011; Roy et al 2015; Scala and Johnson 2017; Walks 2005) or between regions (Dijkstra et al 2020), the number of studies dealing with the geographical context of voting has continued to grow, often from a multidisciplinary perspective involving geographers, sociologists and politicians. Recently, we have seen the emergence of work in regional science that has pushed the contextual analyses pursued in electoral geography even further by highlighting how territorial characteristics and their evolving situation can affect voting (Dijkstra et al 2020; Hendrickson et al 2018; McCann 2020; Rodríguez-Pose 2018, 2020).…”

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Abstentionist Voting – Between Disengagement and Protestation in Neglected Areas: A Spatial Analysis of The Paris Metropolis

Bourdin

Tai

2021

International Regional Science Review

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This article analyzes electoral behaviors related to voting abstention in the Metropolis of Paris. We highlight the interest of a contextual approach to examine non-voting behaviors. Using socio-economic and demographic data at the level of municipalities, we construct a spatial model to explain the reasons for abstention. Our results support the idea that abstentionism expresses a disengagement behavior as well as a protestation behavior. People disengage from politics because they believe that politicians (no matter which party is in power) will not be able to change their situation. This hypothesis applies to non-voters peripheral to political life. We also show that these people tend to live in socio-economically marginalized areas. The protest attitude is found especially in “left-behind” areas that have experienced a significant decline in the supply of public services and local shops. Bridging the divide in these neglected areas is essential to avoid further marginalization and growing protest.

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“…Due to the Holocaust and post-World War II repatriation of the Polish population of Vilnius, which previously constituted the majority of the residents in the city, Vilnius hardly has an inherited social structure from the pre-war period (Czerniakiewicz & Czerniakiewicz, 2007;Eberhardt, 2011;Mendelsohn, 1983;Weeks, 2008). Combined with the Soviet period of industrialisation and associated migration flows, this created a unique ethnic landscape of the Vilnius urban area: the city is dominated by migrants and their descendants from within Lithuania as well as from the other former republics of the Soviet Union (USSR), while the Polish population dominates in the poor region surrounding the city (Ubarevičienė, Burneika, & van Ham, 2015). Another unique feature of Vilnius is its position in the settlement system of Lithuania.…”

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Large social inequalities and low levels of socio-economic segregation in Vilnius

Valatka,

Burneika,

Ubarevičienė

2018

Architecture and the Built Environment

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The city of Vilnius has experienced major shifts in occupational structure between 2001 and 2011 and at the same time there were major transitions in the housing market and suburbanization. The main aim of this chapter is to get more insight in recent socio-economic segregation processes in Vilnius. We used occupational groups as a proxy for socio-economic status, and census tract level data to measure segregation in Vilnius and its three main housing zones during 2001 and 2011. Notwithstanding the major economic and social changes of post-communist society, we found low levels of segregation and modest change during the last decade. Local patterns of segregation were explored using location quotient maps. The analyses illustrated a deepening social divide in the city between the relatively rich north and the poorer south of the city, but the inner city changes are somehow ambiguous. In this chapter we argue that the main factors of socio-spatial change in Vilnius are related to an exceptionally high share of housing estates in the city and the polycentric urban system of the country. Together with 'fast-track' reforms after 1990 this urban system gave a unique character to the current processes and patterns of segregation.

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Ethno-Political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region: An Analysis of Voting Behavior

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Population decline in Lithuania

Population decline in Lithuania

Abstentionist Voting – Between Disengagement and Protestation in Neglected Areas: A Spatial Analysis of The Paris Metropolis

Large social inequalities and low levels of socio-economic segregation in Vilnius

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