The Sound of Silence: Minorities, Abstention and Democracy

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 preferen...

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Autores principales: Biondo, Alessio Emanuele, Pluchino, Alessandro, Zanola, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052082
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24010056
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description 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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spelling pubmed-87745942022-01-21 The Sound of Silence: Minorities, Abstention and Democracy Biondo, Alessio Emanuele Pluchino, Alessandro Zanola, Roberto Entropy (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2021-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8774594/ /pubmed/35052082 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24010056 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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