Abstract
Electoral studies in Italy boast a remarkable research tradition based on territorial
studies. As it is well known, over the years the municipal, regional or macro-
regional level has been privileged. Recently, the decline of geopolitical areas
(white and red) has led to favouring other approaches, often based on survey
data. More recent contributions have instead tried to shed light on the relationships
between socio-economic variables and voting using the sub-municipal
level. In this line of research, this article aims to verify the presence of electoral
trends at sub-municipal level with reference to the cities of Genoa, Milan and
Turin, and also proposes to advance some explanations on their causes starting
from the cleavage «losers/winners of globalization». The analyses on the electoral
trends in the three municipalities were carried out using the data of six
elections: parliamentary 2008, European 2009, parliamentary 2013, European
2014, parliamentary 2018 and European 2019. The electoral results obtained by
parties were correlated with a disadvantage index built from Istat data, using the
statistical areas into which the territory of the three municipalities is divided.
The article shows how the choices of the voters are still dictated by the presence
of territorial divisions, however operating at sub-municipal level, less lasting
than traditional sub-cultural divisions and based on socio-economic elements.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | Electoral behaviour within cities. The former industrial area genoa-milan-turin |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 423-450 |
Numero di pagine | 28 |
Rivista | Polis |
Volume | 35 |
Numero di pubblicazione | 3 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - dic 2020 |
Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |
Keywords
- Disadvantage
- Elections
- Electoral Behaviour
- Genoa
- Milan
- Turin