Some geographical aspects of the American presidential election of 1992

Market Segmentation and Product Differentiation in Political Campaigns: A Technical Feature Perspective

“…This base was used to particularly good effect by the Liberal Democrats in Southwest England during the 1997 British General Election and by Hill Clinton as the basis of his strategy in the 1992 Presidential Election (Shelley and Archer 1994). Yorke and Meehan (1986) advocated the use of ACORN2 as a segmentation base in a study on the 1984 European Elections.…”

Cycles in American National Electoral Politics, 1854–2006: Statistical Evidence and an Explanatory Model

“…A third approach (often associated with Key (1955, 1959) focuses on (3) substantial change in the composition of each party's sociodemographic support base . The fourth approach, associated primarily with political geographers (Shelley and Archer 1994; but see also Nardulli 1995), emphasizes (4) change in the geographic loci of party support , especially in regional terms. The fifth, associated most with the work of Schattschneider (1960, 1988) and then Riker (1982), treats realignment as (5) a change in the defining issue cleavage(s) that structured political competition .…”

Geography, Territory, and Ethnicity Current Perspectives From Political Geography

“…That race and ethnic identity is an important determinant of voting behavior in the contemporary United States is well established in local elections (Webster and Webster, 1986;Clark and Morrison, 1992) and in national elections (Shelley and Archer, 1994). Hodge and Staeheli (1 992) have examined the distribution of support within the city of Seattle in a series of elections for national, state, and local public offices and issue initiatives and referenda.…”