The new political geography of corporate globalization

Rokkan’s electoral mobilization and cleavage model of class-based politics within countries is being undermined by contemporary globalization. A new geography of planetary urbanization has developed in which the key spatial dimension is degrees of metropolitanization between cities. This is illustra...

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Main Author: Peter J. Taylor
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Language:English
Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2017-09-01
Series:L'Espace Politique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/4330
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description Rokkan’s electoral mobilization and cleavage model of class-based politics within countries is being undermined by contemporary globalization. A new geography of planetary urbanization has developed in which the key spatial dimension is degrees of metropolitanization between cities. This is illustrated using the results of the UK referendum on EU membership. It is shown that across the UK, irrespective of the level of support to stay, the larger and more central cities within the regions and nations of the country have higher support vote percentages than their lesser city neighbours. The conclusion is that in the aftermath of the failure of ‘trickle-down economics’, there is now a similar breakdown of ‘trickle down politics’.
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spelling doaj-art-1b713100a1f44f4a8b8c82ba6b421c172025-08-20T01:55:03ZengUniversité de Reims Champagne-ArdennesL'Espace Politique1958-55002017-09-013210.4000/espacepolitique.4330The new political geography of corporate globalizationPeter J. TaylorRokkan’s electoral mobilization and cleavage model of class-based politics within countries is being undermined by contemporary globalization. A new geography of planetary urbanization has developed in which the key spatial dimension is degrees of metropolitanization between cities. This is illustrated using the results of the UK referendum on EU membership. It is shown that across the UK, irrespective of the level of support to stay, the larger and more central cities within the regions and nations of the country have higher support vote percentages than their lesser city neighbours. The conclusion is that in the aftermath of the failure of ‘trickle-down economics’, there is now a similar breakdown of ‘trickle down politics’.https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/4330electoral geographycorporate globalizationmetropolitanizationplanetary urbanizationBrexit referendumtrickle down politics
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The new political geography of corporate globalization
L'Espace Politique
electoral geography
corporate globalization
metropolitanization
planetary urbanization
Brexit referendum
trickle down politics
title The new political geography of corporate globalization
title_full The new political geography of corporate globalization
title_fullStr The new political geography of corporate globalization
title_full_unstemmed The new political geography of corporate globalization
title_short The new political geography of corporate globalization
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topic electoral geography
corporate globalization
metropolitanization
planetary urbanization
Brexit referendum
trickle down politics
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