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Explain the reasons for low voter turnout in democratic countries with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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Voting is the act through which citizens confer legitimacy on democratic rule, yet it is hard to explain at all. Anthony Downs's paradox of voting (1957) notes that one vote is almost never decisive while its cost is real; William H. Riker and Peter C. Ordeshook (1968) rescued it by adding civic duty. Sidney Verba,…

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  • Institutional reasons: the cost of voting
  • Political reasons: a low stake in the outcome
  • Socio-economic reasons: resources and mobilisation
  • Why it matters
  • Conclusion
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