Ethno-Political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region: An analysis of voting behavior

Title

Ethno-Political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region: An analysis of voting behavior

 Author

Ubareviciene, R.
Burneika, D.
Van Ham, M.

Faculty

Architecture and The Built Environment

 Department

OTB

 Date

2015-04-01

 Abstract

We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes for the Polish party, and an increase of the absolute number of votes for this party. The changing electoral behavior might be an indicator of growing ethno-political tensions and the zones of the most intense changes identify areas of potential social tensions between ethnic groups. Part of the research leading to these results (Prof Dr Maarten van Ham) has received funding from the Marie Curie programme under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / Career Integration Grant n. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects).

 Subject

suburbanization
ethnicity
conflict
voting behavior
electoral data
Lithuania

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 Publisher

Taylor & Francis

 Embargo date

2016-10-01

 ISSN

0162-9778

 Source

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015; Authors version (post-print)

 Other version

https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2015.1027935

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Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

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