{"id":1415,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/explain-the-reasons-for-low-voter-turnout-in-democratic-countries-upsc-psir-2019-2904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:26","slug":"explain-the-reasons-for-low-voter-turnout-in-democratic-countries-upsc-psir-2019-2904","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/explain-the-reasons-for-low-voter-turnout-in-democratic-countries-upsc-psir-2019-2904\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain the reasons for low voter turnout in democratic countries with suitable examples."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">disillusionment \/ apathy (Putnam \u2014 falling social capital, EU Parliament polls) \u2192 institutional barriers (Piven &amp; Cloward \u2014 registration, timing, voter-ID; low-income &amp; minority hit) \u2014 voter fatigue (Franklin \u2014 Switzerland) \u2014 contentment (Inglehart \u2014 post-materialism, Japan) \u2014 crisis of legitimacy (Habermas \u2014 Occupy \/ Yellow Vests \u2014 far-right resentment, Tertmn \/TaDan \u00a3Aictant nalitical placc<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Sa I EI ae aa a low turnout not always decay \u2014 contentment, not only disaffection or exclusion \u2014 some abstention signals enticfartinn unth the ctatii\/c An<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">ee ee eee I eee eee ee ee eee cure lies in substance, not compulsion \u2192 Sen \u2014 democracy as a good in itself \u2192 electoral-funding reform, wider representation, civil society turnout a mixed signal \u2014 exclusion + disaffection outweigh contentment \u2014 reconnect citizens to institutions to revive the vote<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[37],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[72],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1415","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-37","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-politics-of-representation-and-participation","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1415\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}