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SPACE program (2003-2007). Current resources in support of
Spatially Integrated Social Science
are now available at the following:

www.spatial.ucsb.edu

www.gispopsci.org

www.teachspatial.org

SPACE Discipline Resources

Disciplines >> Political Science

Political Science

SPACE Sessions and Conference Workshops

Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, March 2009

Workshop Participant Contributions

Christopher Holoman, Hilbert College
Benjamin Forest, Dartmouth College / McGill University
Iris Hui, University of California, Berkeley
Linda Loubert, Morgan State University
Steve Wuhs, University of Redlands

Course Syllabi

Territorial Politics
Ecological Inference
The Operationalization of Spatial Models (a 3-day course)
Spatial Analysis, Interactive Databases, Geographic Information Systems and Social Science Research
Polictical Geography, John Haas
Polictical Geography, Phil Steinberg

CSISS Classics

Charles Booth: Mapping London's Poverty, 1885-1903
Valdimer Orlando Key: Mapping Southern Politics, 1949

Publications

SPACE appreciates the efforts of Iris Hui in organizing the publications list for political science.

Journals

Political Analysis. See Special Issue on Spatial Methods in Political Science. 2002. 10: 211-317.

Political Geography. See Special Issue on The Development and Application of Spatial Analysis for Political Methodology. 2002. 21: 155-286.
Spatial Economic Analysis.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences (Forthcoming, 2008)

Publications by Topics

International Relations/Political Economy

Gleditsch, Kristian & Michael Ward. 2001. "Measuring Space: A Minimum Distance Database and Applications to International Studies". Journal of Peace Research. 38(6): 739-758.

Buhaug, Halvard & Scott Gates. 2002. "The Geography of Civil War." Journal of Peace Research. 39(4): 417-433.

Busch, Marc & Eric Reinhardt. 1999. "Industrial Location and Protection: The Political and Economic Geography of U.S. Non-tariff Barriers." American Journal of Political Science. 43(4): 1028-1050.

Public Policy

Connor, Stephen. "Using Geographical Information Systems for Decision-Support in National Development Planning." Development in Practice. 5(4): 356-360.

Campaign Finance

Cho, Wendy Tam & James Gimpel. 2007. "Prospecting for (Campaign) Gold." American Journal of Political Science 51(2): 255-268.

Cho, Wendy Tam & Frances E. Lee and Joshua Kaminski . 2006. "The Political Geography of Campaign Contributions in American Politics." Journal of Politics. 68(3): 626-639.

Cho, Wendy Tam. 2003. "Contagion Effects and Ethnic Contribution Networks." American Journal of Political Science 47(2): 368-387.

Voting/Political Participation

O'Loughlin, John, Colin Flint & Luc Anselin. 1994. "The Geography of the Nazi Vote: Context, Confession and Class in the Reichstag Election of 1930." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 84(3): 351-380.

Gimpel, James & Jason Schuknecht. 2003. Patchwork Nation: Sectionalism and Political Change in American Politics. University of Michigan Press.

Cho, Wendy Tam, James G. Gimpel and Joshua J. Dyck. 2006. "Residential Concentration, Socialization, and Voter Turnout, Journal of Politics." 68(1): 156-167.

Brady, Henry & Iris Hui. 2006. "Is It Worth Going an Extra Mile to Improve Causal Inference?" Paper Presented at the Annual Political Methodology Meeting.

Cho, Wendy Tam & Thomas J. Rudolph. 2007. "Emanating Political Participation: Untangling the Spatial Structure behind Participation." British Journal of Political Science 37(1).

Urban Politics

Dreier, Peter, John Mollenkopf & Todd Swanstrom. 2001. Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century. University Press of Kansas.

Mollenkopf, John. 1983. Contested City. Princeton University Press.

Migration

Brown, Thad. 1988. Migration and Politics. University of North Carolina Press.

Gimpel, James. 1999. Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration and the Politics of Places. University of Michigan Press.

Weeks, Gregory & John Weeks. 2008. Irresistible Forces: Explaining Latin American Migration to the United States. University of New Mexico Press.

Ecological Inference & Modifiable Areal Unit Problem

Achen, Christopher & W. Philips Shively. 1995. Cross-Level Inference. University of Chicago Press.

King, Gary. 2004. Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies. Cambridge University Press.