Anthoula Malkopoulou

The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe

Democracy's Duty?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the question whether there is a duty to vote and if this is enforceable in the form of compulsory voting. Anthoula Malkopoulou presents the importance of compulsory voting today, situating the debate within the contemporary discussion on elections, representation and democracy, and questioning the historical origins of the idea in Europe. Malkopoulou also criticizes the misuse of compulsory voting and argues for its abolition after the Second World War, exposing the contingency of relevant normative claims today and the conditionality of compulsory voting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781138021976
• ISBN-10: 1138021970
• Artikelnr.: 40816162

Autorenporträt

Anthoula Malkopoulou is a Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: Introduction: Historicising Compulsory Voting Part 1:
Ideas and Practices, Past and Present 1. Compulsory Voting and Contemporary
Democratic Theory 2. From Ancient Greece to the French Revolution Part 2:
Parliamentary arguments and constitutional reforms 3. France 1848-1946: The
conservative legacy of compulsory voting 4. France 1848-1946: The moderate
republican reading of compulsory voting 5. Democracy under control:
Compulsory voting in twentieth-century Greece Conclusions. Index