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In the 2009 midterm federal elections in Mexico, the highest levels of invalid ballots were positively associated with the highest levels of municipal schooling contradicting the common pattern presented in previous federal elections. Furthermore, the presence of mobilization in favor of invalid vote caused that the positive magnitude between schooling and invalid vote was stronger and the positive relationship between abstention and schooling decreased its magnitude. This means that the mobilization in favor of invalid ballot in combination with the schooling achieved its goal of increasing invalid ballots rates at municipalities and reducing the abstention in the same places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ethics should promote, sustain, inspire and complement the Law, although, under social and democratic Rule of Law, it is required the entire submission of Public Administration to Law. Public employee's duty of abstention, when they find themselves in situations determined by law as under the risk of partiality or service to particular interests and not to public purposes, is only a precautionary measure that search for the best guarantee of effective submission to Law of all public power proceedings and promote citizen's trust in their authorities and public employees. Duty of abstention was built in XX century from the legal concept of recusation which is historically deep-rooted in legal field, and it is included in institutional setting. Comparison of regulations between Peruvian and Spanish Law in the administrative field promote an analysis of legal system particularities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the civic discomfort in the recent democracy. It notes that politics defeat economy, corruption remains, loss of credibility in politics and an oligarchyzation of democracy that resulted the distance of the people from elites. It offers an analysis on the electoral abstention trends, theories and hypothesis of behavior of vote and of civic participation. It reveals that social researchers has laid special attention to possible alternatives for democracy development.

This article applies framing effects theories to the study of voter participation. It more specifically points to cultural frame as the critical variable in accounting for voter turnout in Catalonia - over other variables such as age, income or education. Based on our results, the article revisits and reconsiders the so-called "differential" abstention hypotheses (that so many scholars have used to explain lower turnouts in local and regional elections than in the Spanish legislatives ones). Bayesian inference and a multilevel model are used to build up the statistical model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The movement for the void vote that emerged in the circumstances of the 2009 federal elections is described and analyzed. The early signs of the emergence of this novel movement are traced, how the void vote was promoted, the rejection that it produced among the parties, the electoral bodies and the catholic hierarchy and the debate that occurred on a national level in connection with this movement; the organizational forms that said movement adopted and its impacts. It has as background a growing abstentionism and its implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article offers an explanation of the abstention recorded in the Spanish Constitutional Referendum of 1978, based, for the first time, on analysis of polling data. Firstly, we ask whether abstention was more likely amongst citizens to the left of the ideological spectrum. Secondly, we find out whether there was any relationship between abstention and political motivations. We test for three political motivations in the article: rejection of the lack of transparency with which the procedures to establish the constitution were carried out, disagreement with part of the content of the constitution, and the use of the constitutional referendum as a second-order election in which to punish Adolfo Suarez's government through abstention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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San Juan del Rio is the second municipality of the State of Queretaro, Mexico. It was also the first city ruled by a party different from the PRI. During four trienniums, from 1991 to 2003, the City council was presided over by panistas. That last year, the PRI recovers it. The paper analyzes, to the light of diverse theories of the electoral behavior and the statistical series of the results, the paper of migration, party identification and rational choice, particularly non-voting role in this recovery. The lack of consolidation of a left option like third possibility also stands out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a review of electorate behavior in the capital of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, in the last years of the 20th Century and in the 2003 elections. The electorate has been evolving and they have diversified their vote depending on the candidates, and they have exercised the punishment vote. There are hard votes of parties that answer to clients. But electoral volatility from election to election does not guarantee victories for any parties without electoral work. The most outstanding aspect has been the fact that among citizens interested in making democracy advance from diverse civic organizations, emphasis has passed from the defense of the vote, to the demand for electoral participation, and to have elected officials bear in mind the citizens' point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se pretende argumentar que el vuelco electoral del 14 de marzo de 2004 fue consecuencia de dos tendencias convergentes. Por una parte, el segundo mandato de José María Aznar (2000-2004), durante el cual el PP gozó de mayoría absoluta en el Parlamento, estuvo marcado por una sucesión de enfrentamientos con la opinión pública que fueron haciendo crecer el malestar entre los ciudadanos y caer la valoración del gobierno. Por otra parte, en ese mismo período se había ido consolidando la credibilidad del PSOE como alternativa electoral, tras el drástico cambio de su dirección como consecuencia del desastre electoral sufrido por el partido en las elecciones generales de 2000. En ese doble contexto, el impacto de los atentados del 11 de marzo fue incrementar la participación, invirtiendo la desmovilización del electorado de centro-izquierda que se había producido en aquellas elecciones, y actualizar los agravios frente al gobierno que se habían acumulado en años anteriores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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