Geography of contestation: A study on the Yellow Vest movement and the rise of populism in France

Bourdin, Sébastien; Torre, André

doi:10.1111/jors.12620

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“…Identifying spatial patterns and investigating fundamental relationships behind voting should provide a solid foundation for those who wish to expand the pool of people participating in the democratic act of voting. Both supporters and opponents of the government and democratic institutions live in territories heavily influenced by decisions proposed and pushed through by said actors, therefore the spatial geographical dimension plays a key role in electoral behaviour (Bourdin & Torre, 2022). Besides, various inequalities between regions, places, and people are closely related to radical and protest voting (e.g.…”

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Examining voter turnout using multiscale geographically weighted regression: The case of Slovakia

Kevický,

Suchánek

2023

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Voter turnout is an essential aspect of elections and often reflects the attitude of a country’s population towards democracy and politics. Therefore, examining the distribution of voter turnout and determining the factors that influence whether or not people will vote is crucial. This study aims to find significant factors that underlie the different levels of electoral participation across regions in Slovakia during the 2020 parliamentary elections. In this interpretation, special attention is paid to the ability of the main theories of voter turnout to explain the behaviour of Slovak voters. The primary analytical tool is multiscale geographically weighted regression, which represents an advanced local regression modelling variant. The results indicate that the multiscale geographically weighted regression is superior to the global ordinary least square model in virtually all aspects. Voter turnout is generally higher in economically and socially prosperous localities and regions, which is in line with the societal modernisation theory. Additionally, factors connected to mobilisation theory and the concept of ‘left behind places’ also proved to be valuable. However, in other cases, such as with the share of retirees and potential habitual voting, the outcomes were not overly convincing, and further research is required.

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Examining voter turnout using multiscale geographically weighted regression: The case of Slovakia

Kevický,

Suchánek

2023

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…While the former were mostly urban, and more specifically Parisian, the Yellow Vest Movement was national, and particularly developed in rural and suburban areas. Such a change might be linked with many different economic factors, including the gentrification of Paris and the long-term redistribution of industrial jobs in France, and lead to a specific "geography of contestation"(Bourdin & Torre, 2023).…”

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Manifesting the revolutionary people: The Yellow Vest Movement and popular sovereignty

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2024

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“…The scale of the movement demonstrates the symbolic connotation of the fuel tax increase to the experienced socioeconomic inequalities between urban and rural areas (Bourdin and Torre, 2022). Undoubtedly, an increase in fuel tax would have affected many who participated in the movement.…”

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Contents 1 rural areas Table D6Sensitivity analysis of perceived accessibility determinants in rural areas using different distance decay parameters 22Chapter 1 lockdown when directed mobility was severely restricted and offset by undirected travel (Hook et al., 2021;Mokhtarian and Chen, 2004;Roth and Zahavi, 1981;Schafer and Victor, 2000). For most of human history, activities generally took place locally as everyday mobility was based on human and animal power (Pooley, 2020). From the 19th century onwards, and especially in the second half of the 20th century, a different picture emerged. Improvements in transport technologies, the massive enlargement of infrastructure and falling transport costs, not least due to cheap oil, have dramatically expanded people's travel horizons (Grübler, 2004;Kent, 2014;Metz, 2013). Unprecedented levels of personal mobility have fostered the upscaling of economic activity, with economies of scale increasingly outweighing transport costs (Fujita et al., 1999;Krugman, 1991;Vickerman et al., 1999). The increase in potential mobility has fostered suburbanization and the decentralization of economic activity within cities. This has led to the growth of employment outside urban cores but near transport infrastructure, particularly motorways (McMillen and Stefani, 2003). The more recent structural shift in developed countries towards a knowledge-based service economy has also encouraged high-density urban development fuelled by agglomeration benefits from co-location (Puga, 2010).These two trends together, of upscaling and of (sub)urban growth, have led to small local facilities in rural areas closing in favour of larger venues in more central locations at greater distances (

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Geography of contestation: A study on the Yellow Vest movement and the rise of populism in France

Cited by 16 publications

References 73 publications

Examining voter turnout using multiscale geographically weighted regression: The case of Slovakia

Examining voter turnout using multiscale geographically weighted regression: The case of Slovakia

Manifesting the revolutionary people: The Yellow Vest Movement and popular sovereignty

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