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DevEthAC · Developing Ethical Abstention Contextualism

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Период: 2023-04-01 → 2025-03-31
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Накратко на български

Моралната страна на отказа от гласуване изследва кога е допустимо да не участваме в изборите. Това помага да се разбере как негласуването влияе върху правата и отговорностите на гражданите, както и как държавите могат да се справят с него.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Developing Ethical Abstention Contextualism

Electoral abstention is on the rise. In new and established democracies alike, there has in recent decades been an increase in the share of enfranchised citizens who voluntarily refrain from voting in legislative, presidential, and other political elections. In response to this development normative political theory has produced an innovative body of work focusing on electoral participation. Examining non-voting from a principled, moral perspective, this literature notably explores to what extent a democratic state can justifiably render voting a legal obligation, and to what extent voting in elections might be a moral obligation. But despite its advances, the philosophy of electoral participation still has important lacunas and shortcomings. One, although several philosophers of electoral participation indicate that non-voting might sometimes be morally permissible, the scope and the moral grounds of permissible non-voting remain ill-defined. Two, insofar as democratic states have policies of optional voting, they must have a procedure for handling or absorbing the non-votes that likely occur in elections. Yet, the philosophy of electoral participation offers no account of how democratic electoral systems can best absorb non-votes. And three, the philosophy of electoral participation does not yet shed light on the moral consequences that non-voting might engender for the individual non-voter: no account exists yet of how not voting might affect a citizen’s moral entitlements and responsibilities. Remedying these three lacunas has been the overall scientific objective of DevEthAc. It has sought to morally assess non-voting and give an clear account of the extent to which it is morally permissible and impermissible respectively. The project has further sought to give an account of how a democratic electoral system can best absorb non-votes. And it has aimed to give an account of the moral consequences that non-voting may have for individual non-voters.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The research projet ‘Developing Ethical Abstention Contextualism’ (DevEthAC) deals with the ethics of electoral abstention, i.e. the ethics of voluntary non-voting in political elections by enfranchised citizens. The project specifically addresses an existing view in electoral ethics that it calls ethical abstention contextualism, and that is to the effect that abstention is ethically permitted in some circumstances, but not in others. Looking to elaborate and bolster this particular view, DevEthAC examines how ethical abstention contextualism should evaluate the forms of electoral abstention that are most characteristic in practice, e.g. abstention by young citizens, abstention by poor citizens, abstention in non-proportional election systems, etc. DevEthAC further seeks to flesh out the ethical bottom-line responsibilities that ethical abstention contextualism should ascribe to individual citizens when different circumstances coincide in one and the same election, causing abstention to seem both pro tanto permissible and pro tanto prohibited. And DevEthAC thirdly aims to clarify what ethical abstention contextualism implies for how electoral systems should receive and register abstentions. Notably, DevEthAC aims to understand how abstention contextualism assesses electoral systems that simply count and report abstentions, and how it evaluates electoral models in which abstentions are instead rendered politically consequential, e.g. through the use of quorum rules or other institutional devices. By pursuing these three research objectives, DevEthAC strives to elaborate and strengthen a philosophical position that enjoys prominence in the electoral ethics research debate, but remains undertheorized nonetheless. Additionally, the project aims to further the general public’s ability to normatively asses current patterns of electoral abstention and its ability to gauge how democratic electoral systems might respond to those patterns.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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