To vote or not to vote?
Enjoy some of the talks and interviews during our project seminar in Berlin in July 2009. What follows is the video account of Piotrek, Emre, Marta, Ewa and Mirek:
Archived entries for nonvoters
Can typologies explain it all?
There is not one simple, straightforward reason why people do or do not vote. There are many motives—personal, social, institutional—for particular patterns of participation. A widespread approach aiming for a better understanding of nonvoters is to categorise them by creating typologies.
Thomas Kleinhenz—in his book “Reasons for the decline of turnout”—offers one of the most detailed typologies of nonvoters, taking into account their socio-economic status, political interests, party identifications, values and participation behaviours.
Unknown voters – Unknown non-voters
By Joanna Socha
Had I ever thought about non-voters before? Probably not. Why? Because why in the world should I focus on people, who consider (or don’t) voting important? Does anybody really care about them? No way – I thought before. But now I know that before I didn’t know what I had been talking about. Continue reading…
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.
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.
Sugarcoated turnout numbers
When it comes to election tournout numbers, all European countries fiddle the figures as much as they can. In doing so, they pretend a level of legitimacy of the voting system that, in fact, does no longer exist as implied.