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

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 itsel...

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Autor: Barreto, Álvaro Augusto de Borba
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/4760
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/4760
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Voter
Registration of voters
Electoral abstention
Electoral participation
Eleitor
Alistamento
Abstenção
Participação eleitoral
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Sumario: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