Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the use of multilevel modelling in the analysis of electoral data. Issues of citizenship and the questioning of the traditional, Marshallian perspective of citizenship have become important research topics among feminist geographers. State territoriality has always been the core business of political geography. Scale has also been a matter of concern for feminist geographers. The influence of Marxist political economy, the engagement of activist geographers and the rise of radical geographers were a first start. From a political economic perspective, domestic political processes are not limited to formal levels of administrations. Administrative regions have also been problematized as entities, and many geographers and political scientists have looked into the social construction of regions and the deconstruction of regional and regionalist discourses.