THE PROJECT VOLUME - Chapter 10

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Publisher:  Pragma Publishing
Online publication date:  December 2023
Chapter DOI:  https://doi.org/10.62483/23612014

The Effects of Non-Electoral Participation on Voting in Europe

Attila Mráz

ABSTRACT

One of the guiding assumptions of the REDEM project is that shifting the study of the ethics of voting to a voter-centred perspective improves our understanding of the ethical challenges and moral dilemmas facing European voters and opens new avenues of electoral institutional design to mitigate them. The present report substantiates this assumption by pursuing the following three aims:

  1. To describe ethical considerations relevant to voting choices, including reasons relevant to whether one votes as well as to how one votes;
  2. To describe and illustrate how a shift of focus to a voter-centred perspective allows us to appreciate a wider range of ethical considerations;
  3. To compare these to the ethical considerations that elitist or pluralist approaches to electoral democracy can account for, as well as describing and analysing the differences between the former approaches, on the one hand, and a voter-centred perspective, on the other.

The findings of the chapter also serve the more general purpose of providing normative input into the ethical burden that European political and electoral systems currently impose on voters.

Citation
Mráz, Attila. 2023. ‘The Effects of Non-Electoral Participation on Voting in Europe’. In Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, ed. Annabelle Lever. Paris: Pragma Publishing, 285–304. https://doi.org/10.62483/23612014.
Mráz, A. (2023). The Effects of Non-Electoral Participation on Voting in Europe. In A. Lever (Ed.), Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis—A Voter-Centred Perspective (pp. 285–304). Pragma Publishing. https://doi.org/10.62483/23612014
Mráz, Attila. 2023. ‘The Effects of Non-Electoral Participation on Voting in Europe’. In Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, edited by Annabelle Lever, 285–304. Paris: Pragma Publishing. https://doi.org/10.62483/23612014.
Mráz, A. (2023) ‘The Effects of Non-Electoral Participation on Voting in Europe’, in A. Lever (ed.) Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective. Paris: Pragma Publishing, pp. 285–304. Available at: https://doi.org/10.62483/23612014.
Mráz, Attila, ‘The Effects of Non-Electoral Participation on Voting in Europe’, in Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, ed. by Annabelle Lever (Paris: Pragma Publishing, 2023), pp. 285–304 <https://doi.org/10.62483/23612014>
Mráz, Attila. ‘The Effects of Non-Electoral Participation on Voting in Europe’. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, edited by Annabelle Lever, Pragma Publishing, 2023, pp. 285–304, https://doi.org/10.62483/23612014.
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