The absent voter: The no-show at polls in the discussion of Social Sciences

Authors

  • Álvaro Augusto de Borba Barreto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2008.2.4760

Keywords:

Voter, Registration of voters, Electoral abstention, Electoral participation

Abstract

The article analyses how Social Science addresses people who fail to vote, with the aim of scale the fields of research, the main findings and the limits to which such reflection has arrived, both from a theoretical and methodological point of view and regarding to how this phenomenon presents itself in democracies. Key words: Voter; Registration of voters; Electoral abstention; Electoral participation

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Published

2009-01-20

How to Cite

Barreto, Álvaro A. de B. (2009). The absent voter: The no-show at polls in the discussion of Social Sciences. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 8(2), 187–206. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2008.2.4760

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008): Political communication, party and elections

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Articles

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