André Siegfried
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André Siegfried
(1875-1959) French pioneer of electoral geography. Famed for his intensely detailed ecological studies of the relationship between geographical and political variables, showing, for instance, how different types of soil conditions and farming patterns were associated with different patterns of voting. Because of both the volume of work involved and the difficulty of avoiding the ‘ecological fallacy’, he has had few English-speaking imitators except V. O. Key and Henry Pelling. However, more sophisticated statistics and more powerful computers have revived an interest in electoral geography and in ecological association, which used with care can give valuable information about times and places where survey-based evidence is unavailable.
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André Siegfried (April 21, 1875 – March 28, 1959) was a French academic, geographer and political writer best known for his commentaries on American, Canadian, and British politics.
He was born in Le Havre, France, to Jules Siegfried, the French minister of commerce. A few months after the liberation of France in mid-1944, he was elected to the Académie française, taking the vacant seat of Gabriel Hanotaux (who had been elected in 1897). He died in Paris in 1959.
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