Election fatigue
With voter apathy which is generally passive abstention of citizens in political elections and polls indicated.
In contrast to active abstention, in which an empty ballot paper is brought to the ballot box , a poll-weary citizen saves himself from going to the polling station .
As to the reasons for electoral fatigue, there are various speculations in connection with studies on so-called political disaffection . Potential voters either feel that they are not adequately represented by any of the parties up for election, because “it doesn’t matter who rules the country, since nothing is going to get better anyway”, or, out of satisfaction, they are simply indifferent: “To say is but no matter who rules - that doesn't have to be negative. This indifference often means satisfaction with the system, especially since the politics of the major parties are coming closer to each other. "
literature
- Michael Eilfort : The non-voters. Abstention from voting as a form of voting behavior (= Studies on Politics, Volume 24). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-5067-9324-1 .
Web links
- Federal Agency for Civic Education - The electoral fatigue of young people
- Kerstin Krupp, Andreas Lesch, Tom Levine: Concern about election fatigue. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 28, 2003, accessed September 4, 2015 .
- Mistrust. Discontent. Frustration. Why fewer and fewer citizens are voting (PDF; 61 kB) , BAT Foundation for Future Issues , Research News, 214, 30th year, 26 May 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press review: NPD benefits from election fatigue ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Election fatigue - when the citizen refuses
