The Meanings of Voting for Citizens

Author(s)
Carolina Plescia, Ming Manuel Boyer, Maria Belen Abdala, Anna Lia Brunetti, Sylvia Kritzinger, Markus Wagner, Petro Tolochko, Cal Le Gall, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Andre Blais
Abstract

Explores diverse conceptualizations of voting in citizens from 13 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.

Provides extensive empirical evidence as the book is based on nearly a million words collected from over 25,000 people through open-ended surveys and both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Questions the universal views on democracy, revealing how the meaning of voting varies among individuals and across different political systems, including both liberal democracies and electoral autocracies.

Organisation(s)
Department of Government, Department of Communication
External organisation(s)
Vanderbilt University, University of Montreal
No. of pages
304
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198946335.001.0001
Publication date
06-2025
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
506014 Comparative politics
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/50bd32c3-9600-4820-85d6-71a683545009