Voter Turnout as an Important Aspect of Electoral Participation
By Andrew Ellis, Maria Gratschew and Stina Larserud, International IDEAPicture by Maria GratschewVoter turnout is a form of electoral participation that is easy to measure and compare between countries, over time, and between different groups of people. During the last decade the world has seen a decline in voter turnout affecting a majority of countries and all regions.Any type of representative democracy has some sort of majority rule as a core principle. Those who are chosen to represent the voters are supposed to have a significant part of the citizens behind them. If this majority support is watered-down by the fact that their votes has come from only a fraction of the citizens, it risks undermining the legitimacy of the elected body.There are several factors affecting the overall level of turnout. First, there are mechanical factors. Physical access to polling stations has... morePolitical Participation of European Youth
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