Electoral indifference: reflections on the significance of blank votes, null votes and abstentions in contemporary political theory

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais

Paola Novaes Ramos¹ 

[1] Universidade de Brasília;

关键词: Eleições;    Democracia;    Participação política.;   

DOI  :  10.5433/2176-6665.2009v14n1p170

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present article analyses the impact of blank and annulled votes and electoral abstention upon the legitimacy of representative democracies with the help of some classic contemporary political theory authors of the end of the 20th century (specifically liberal authors and their critics). Considering elections are central to present day western democracies, even if they do not overtake politics as a whole, the goal is to understand the meaning of such “non-decisional” events to nowadays representative systems with special emphasis in the interpretations of Giovanni Sartori, Seymour Lipset, Samuel Huntington, Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba on one side, and Carole Pateman, C.B. Macpherson and Pierre Bourdieu on the other.

【 授权许可】

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