Monnat and Brown "More than a rural revolt: Landscapes of despair and the 2016 Presidential election" Flashcards
1
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What is electoral geography?
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Understanding geographical voting patterns and differences in governance.
Risk: Turning the voter into an object.
2
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Why do you need to watch out for ecological fallacies?
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This generalises people based on certain factors (e.g. spatial contextual factors).
You can’t go from spatial landscape to people.
3
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What was learned about the 2016 elections because of the paper by Monnat and Brown?
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You can’t say a certain group of people vote for Trump. Trump voters were afraid of the landscape of despair and Trump fuelled this fear. People were afraid of otherness and people voted to be protected from it.
