Regional Development Dynamics and Their Social, Economic and Political Consequences
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Community and Urban Sociology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 32193
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social data science; survey methodology; geospatial social science; social inequality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Living conditions in many countries and contexts today show evidence of increasing and rapidly changing regional disparities in structural, demographic and economic domains. These disparities often take the form of adverse access to health care facilities, childcare provision, education and other public services as well as regional labor market opportunities, business climate, housing and transportation infrastructures. While regional variation in living conditions has been documented extensively, much less research exists that highlights their social, economic and political consequences.
For this reason, this Special Issue aims at combining (interdisciplinary) research that investigates how regional social and economic opportunities to influence expectations, political attitudes, preferences and behavior and thereby exacerbate or mitigate social inequality, social cohesion, political conflicts and radicalization. It aims at bringing together researchers from different disciplines (e.g., sociology, political science, economics, data science) and research areas (e.g., labor markets, political polarization, public health) who engage in studying regional social processes and their consequences.
The editors invite theoretical and empirical contributions focusing on (but not limited to) one or more of the following themes:
- Theoretical or empirical reflections on regional disparities and opportunity structures
- The role of public services and regional infrastructures in generating inequalities in living conditions
- Regional social or health inequalities
- Regional labor markets and (individual) economic outcomes
- Regional polarization of political attitudes and behavior
- Big spatial data
- Methodological challenges in handling and combining geospatial data with other data sources (such as survey data).
Scholars interested in contributing to the Special Issue are invited to submit a proposal of up to 250 words. Please include a title, your name, affiliation and contact information, and send to Prof. Dr. Simon Kühne <[email protected]> and Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig <[email protected]> before 15 October.
Prof. Dr. Simon Kühne
Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- social research
- regional disparities
- geospatial data
- regional sociology
- social inequality
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