"This book arose out of a conference on 'Spatial and Contextual Models of Political Behavior' held at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 23-5 October 1992" -- p. [xi]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spatial and contextual models in political research : an introduction / Munroe Eagles -- Geographic information systems in the social and policy sciences / Michael Batty -- Diffusion of voting support : the Radical Party in Italy / James M. Lutz -- Spatial context for th adoption of judicial innovations in the American states / James M. Lutz and Georgia Wralstad Ulmschneider -- How many Italies? A strategy for spatial analysis of regionalizations of Italian elections results, 1953-87 / Ferenc Csillag and John Agnew -- Fractal geometry and valid ecological inference / Bernard Grofman -- Racial context, the 1968 Wallace vote and southern presidential dealignment : evidence from North Carolina and elsewhere / Bernard Grofman and Lisa Handley -- How to contextual effects work? Developing a theoretical model / Matthew J. Burbank -- Contextual conditioning of political information : common themes from disparate data / Michael A. Krassa -- Is talking across the garden fence of political import? / John Curtice -- Class versus community? Social identities and political mobilization / Munroe Eagles -- Contextual determinants of reference group behavior / Laurie A. Rhodebeck -- On the future of contextual models of political behavior / John W. Books and Charles L. Prysby -- The promise of spatial and contextual analyses in political research / Munroe Eagles.