What is the relationship between regional inequality and political discontent in Europe? This
special issue addresses this question by studying the influence of the subnational context …

We explore the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure (SI) in 'left-behind
places'(LBPs) through a case study a former mining village in northern England. We address …

Governments need to make choices over distributing resources and managing
socioeconomic change, which can have geographically uneven effects. This may give rise to …

Electoral divides mobilized by the far right and the new left typically have an important
spatial component. An urban-rural cleavage (originally theorized by Lipset and Rokkan) …

Inhabitants of rural and peripheral areas in advanced democracies display higher levels of
place resentment. They feel that their area is ignored by political elites, does not get its fair …

Public discourse and scholars alike argue that the spatial divide in voting behavior and
attitudes is rooted in geographic inequalities that serve as breeding grounds for political …

Western Europe is experiencing growing levels of political polarization between parties of
the New Left and the Far Right. The authors argue that this antagonism reflects the …

While the study of populism has typically focused on the national level, recent years have
seen a growing body of research on populism's local dimensions. Despite making important …

This paper examines whether beliefs that local decision-makers are perceived to favour
certain groups or districts over others, are linked to anti-establishment party preferences …

Voters in rural and peripheral areas have increasingly turned away from mainstream parties
and towards right‐wing populist parties. This paper tests the extent to which political …