The Sound of Silence: Minorities, Abstention and Democracy

Autor: Alessio Emanuele Biondo, Alessandro Pluchino, Roberto Zanola
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Entropy, Vol 24, Iss 1, p 56 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e24010056
Popis: Despite the existence of an extensive literature, no definitive conclusion seems to emerge on the extent to which minorities are guaranteed by democratic rules in political systems. This paper contributes to this debate by proposing a modified Heigselmann and Krauss two-dimensional model of preferences in order to capture the role of abstention on minority representativeness. Regardless of the typology of abstention, simulation results show that voter abstention always benefits minorities.
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