The essays in this collection show how electoral geography has shifted from empiricist activity towards a closer involvement with the wider issues addressed by social scientists. They illustrate the potential contributions that electoral geographers can make towards the understanding of global, national and local societies.

1. Developments in Electoral Geography Part 1: The State of Electoral Geography 2. From Political Methodologyt to Geographical Social Theory? A Critical Review of Electoral Geography 1960-87 3. Whither Electoral Geography? A Critique Part 2: The Cleavage Model and Electoral Geography 4. The Electoral Geography of the Netherlands in the Era of Mass Politics, 1888-1986 5. Tradition Contra Change: The Political Geography of Irish Referenda, 1937-87 6. Volatile Stability: New Zealand’s 1987 General Election 7. An Ecological Perspective on Working Class Political Behaviour: Neighbourhood and Class Formation in Sheffield 8. Lipset and Rokkan Revisited: Electoral Cleavages, Electoral Geography, and Electoral Strategy in Great Britain 9. The Cleavage Model and Electoral Geography: A Review Part 3: American Exceptionalism 10. Populism and Agrarian Ideology: The 1982 Nebraska Corporate Farming Referendum 11. Social Transformation and Changing Urban Electoral Behaviour 12. Spatial Targeting Strategies: Representation and Local Politics 13. Identical Geography, Different Party: A Natural Experiment on the Magnitude of Party Differences in the U. S. Senate 1960-1984 14. Local Voting and Social Change Part 4: Future Directions 15. Electoral Geography and the Ideology of Place: The Making of Regions in Belgian Electoral Politics 16. Regulating Union Representation Elections: Towards of Third Type of Electoral Geography 17. Extending The World of Electoral Geography