About this title
A historical and political-geographical analysis of how UK parliamentary constituencies have been defined from the thirteenth century to the present, and the consequences for democratic representation. Argues that recent reforms prioritising numerical equality over community threaten to entrench rather than remedy disproportional and biased election outcomes.
Intended audience
- political geography students
- politics and government postgraduates
- general readers interested in UK electoral reform
Subject classification
- Political Geography
- British Politics
- Electoral Studies
- Modern British History
Scope
- UK parliamentary constituencies
- boundary commissions and redistricting
- electoral systems and bias
- history of parliamentary representation
- geography of voting
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Representative Democracy? Geography and the British Electoral System
- Year
- 2020
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526151827
- Catalogue authors
- Ron Johnston