Some Aspects of the Geography of Political Participation in Western Australia

Bibliographic Data

ID4142240
AuthorsDennis Rumley (The University of Western Australia, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume12
Issue6
Pages671-684
Publication date1980-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a120671
OpenAlexW2063653857
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited9

The paper discusses three aspects of the geography of political participation-enrolment, turnout, and informal voting-for the compulsory electoral system of Western Australia. The considerable variation in percentage enrolment by electorate is explained in terms of an underprivileged and a privileged model, with the former being the more relevant. Spatial variations in turnout are explained in terms of an alienation and a duty model, with the former being the more important from a politicogeographical perspective. Attempts to explain spatial variations in informal voting in terms of either a political illiteracy or a political literacy model are found to be inadequate

Alienation · Development economics · Duty · Economic growth · Economics · Functional illiteracy · Geography · Literacy · Political economy · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Media and Politics

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