Eluding nonvoters
Political science continues to have tremendous trouble to capture the phenomenon of nonvoting – both Prof Roth and Dr de Nève stated and described this phenomenon clearly.
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Change is coming
Traditionally, by which is—in this context—meant during the past fifty years or so, voting behaviour changes over the life course of a person. More often than not, being young meant less interest in voting—with the exception of the very first vote at age 18, resulting in a characteristic dip resembling a tick—and generally voting became again less relevant at old age.
But no more… – graphics and explanation follow below.
Too much systematic exclusion
One of the eye-openers during the intervention by and discussion with PD Dr. Dorothée de Nève–political scientist and author of the 2009 book “Nonvoters – a danger for democracy?“–was the fact that large parts of the residents of European countries are systematically excluded from voting and participating in our democracies.