Download PDFThe electorate in Poland's large and medium-sized cities and towns and its influence on the results of the 2007 parliamentary elections.
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Poland, urbanization, pro-urban and anti-urban parties, rank-size rule
Abstract
Urbanization is regarded among the most significant factors affecting election-related behaviour in Poland. In order to identify the importance of Poland's municipal electorate, a procedure of reverse elimination was applied to the electorates of successive largest cities in Poland, followed by a structure of supporting the strongest political parties at each stage of the cities' rank elimination. Whenever each successive elimination is followed by dwindling support for a given party, this party is referred to as pro-metropolitan.
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10.2478/v10089-010-0008-z
