“The rural-urban divide in the Spanish context and beyond: Establishing the phenomenon and examining the determinants” (POLGEO) is a national project led by our fellow Pedro Riera and funded through a grant by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-119465GB-C21, 2021-2024).
This project aims at collecting, generating and analyzing political data on the rural-urban divide for the period 2000-2020 in Europe. Building a complete dataset on electoral results at the local or district level, together with individual-level information from already fielded surveys and a new one that will be launched in the context of this project will become a highly valuable resource that, upon completion of the project, will be available to the academic community. These data have been so far only partially collected and analyzed, but a thorough analysis can shed light on some highly relevant theoretical debates on the development of democratic politics and electoral behavior in general.
