ABSTRACT
This chapter will focus on the way in which political formations shape and are energised by processes and possibilities of democracy. We will argue that democracy in all its forms is thoroughly geographical. This includes not only the outcomes of electoral democracy – where voting patterns are geographically differentiated, and where the territorial structure of electoral systems can change results – as discussed in the first half of the chapter, but also more participatory forms of democratic mobilisation – for example, through social movements – which the second half of the chapter will discuss.
