Print Email Facebook Twitter 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 suburbanizationethnicityconflictvoting behaviorelectoral dataLithuania To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8de0e177-fd42-4318-ae28-3d989504160c 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 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 Taylor & Francis Files PDF ENGPR_051_POST_PRINT_JBS_ ... aarten.pdf 1.57 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8de0e177-fd42-4318-ae28-3d989504160c/datastream/OBJ/view