Geografie 2023, 128, 231-250

https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie.2023.006

Electoral support in peripheral post-socialist regions as a product of nostalgia and grievances: The example of the Bruntál district

Dominik KevickýID

Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Brno, Czechia

Received July 2022
Accepted January 2023

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