Kam se ztratili voliči?: vysvětlení vývoje volební účasti v České republice v letech 1990 - 2010
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In: Politologická řada 40
In: Ediční řada Studie 62
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Volume 54, Issue 1, p. 78-85
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Volume 53, Issue 1, p. 92-103
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Volume 52, Issue 1, p. 50-55
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: West European politics, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 230-231
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: Politologický časopis, Issue 2
In the last two decades, turnout research has disintegrated into a plethora of studies which focus on partial aspects of turnout. The overall idea of why people vote has been lost. Despite extensive research on turnout, we know relatively little about why people vote. The aim of this text is to present and critically discuss basic theories that explain voter turnout at the individual level. Overall, six theories are presented: the theory of socio-economic status and resources, the theory of civic orientations, the theory of mobilization and involvement in society, the theory of rational choice, the theory of valence politics, and the theory of habitual voting. These theories are discussed mainly from three aspects: (1) the causal mechanisms explaining why people vote; (2) the extent to which each theory links the decision to participate in an election with the decision about which party or candidate to vote for, as well as the sequence of these decisions; and (3) the timing of voters' decisions to participate in an election. The author argues that because of the heterogeneity of voters and the nature of the decision whether or not to vote, it is necessary to understand individual theories not as competitive, but rather as complementary.
In: Naše společnost, Volume 11, Issue 1
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Volume 51, Issue 1, p. 76-81
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Volume 50, Issue 7-8, p. 948-954
ISSN: 1475-6765
In: Sociologický časopis: Czech sociological review, Volume 47, Issue 1, p. 9-32
ISSN: 2336-128X
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Volume 50, Issue 7, p. 948-955
ISSN: 0304-4130
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Volume 48, Issue 7-8, p. 939-944
ISSN: 1475-6765
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Volume 47, Issue 7-8, p. 947-951
ISSN: 1475-6765