What Does Suburbia Vote for?: Changed Settlement Patterns and Political Preferences in Three European Countries
In: Politik und Demokratie in den kleineren Ländern Europas v.14
Cover -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 A first impression: Connecting suburbs and political ideas? -- 1.2 Background -- 1.3 Research questions -- 1.4 Structure of the book -- 1.5 Concept definitions -- 1.5.1 Suburbanisation -- 1.5.2 Metropolitanisation -- 1.5.3 Suburbs -- 1.5.4 Core cities -- 1.1.1 Rural municipalities -- 2 Theoretical framework -- 2.1 Towards an understanding of urban environments and society -- 2.1.1 Thinking of space and society -- 2.1.2 Space as a (constructed) social category -- 2.1.3 The empirical side: Categorising urban spaces -- 2.1.4 Electoral preference and the idea of social space -- 2.1.5 Suburbanisation and political preference -- 2.1.6 Synopsis: geographical concepts in social and political science -- 2.2 Cleavages and geographical differences -- 2.2.1 Classic political cleavage theory -- 2.2.2 Changing cities - changing cleavages? -- 2.2.3 The relationship between classic cleavages and suburbanisation -- 3 Hypotheses -- 3.1 Main hypothesis: suburban conservatism -- 3.2 The prevalent family pattern -- 3.3 Taxation and dependence on public services -- 3.4 Municipal self-representation and anti-urbanism -- 4 Research design -- 4.1 The model of analysis -- 4.2 Country selection -- 4.3 Methods -- 4.4 Data -- 4.5 Variables -- 4.5.1 Dependent variables -- 4.5.2 Independent variables -- 5 Germany -- 5.1 The history of German suburbanisation -- 5.1.1 1900-1930s: growing cities - growing suburbs -- 5.1.2 1933-1945: "Connection with the fertile soil" -- 5.1.3 1945-1990: The post-war economic boom and its urbanistic consequences -- 5.1.4 1990-today: the "in-between city" -- 5.1.5 Conclusion: German suburbanisation and political ideas -- 5.2 Data -- 5.2.1 Measuring place of residence -- 5.2.2 Other variables -- 5.3 Analyses