Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region

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 increasin...

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Main Authors:	Rūta Ubarevičienė, Donatas Burneika, Maarten van Ham
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Delft University of Technology 2018-12-01
Series:	A+BE: Architecture and the Built Environment
Online Access:	https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/abe/article/view/3625

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spelling	doaj-c1f8e69a3d3f4666a49cbbf51770c2432020-11-25T03:10:08ZengDelft University of TechnologyA+BE: Architecture and the Built Environment2212-32022214-72332018-12-017910.7480/abe.2017.9.3625Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban regionRūta Ubarevičienė0Donatas Burneika1Maarten van Ham2TU Delft, Architecture and the Built EnvironmentVilnius UniversityTU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment 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. https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/abe/article/view/3625
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title	Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region
title_short	Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region
title_full	Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region
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publisher	Delft University of Technology
series	A+BE: Architecture and the Built Environment
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publishDate	2018-12-01
description	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.
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Ethno-political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region

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