title: “Voting with feet”: Russian electoral sociology on the problem of voter turnout (1989–1996)
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metadata.value: Shevcov, Aleksej V.
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metadata.value: 2023-08-28T16:34:50Z
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metadata.value: 2023-08-28T16:34:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Shevcov A. V. “Voting with feet”: Russian electoral sociology on the problem of voter turnout (1989–1996). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2023, vol. 16, issue 1, pp. 81–92. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.105 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43907
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metadata.value: The article is devoted to the problem of turnout in elections in the USSR and Russia in the
  period from 1989 to 1996 in the assessment of Russian sociologists and social scientists. The
  theory of representative democracy in its neoliberal version narrows the acts of legitimation
  to the voting procedure. The experience of implementing these principles in the USSR and the
  Russian Federation at the end of the 20th century is quite relevant for the development of contemporary
  political sociology. The goal is a retrospective (historical) study of the explanatory
  schemes offered by Russian electoral sociologists and representatives of related disciplines on
  the decline in voter turnout in the 1989–1996 elections. Objectives: 1) description of specific
  situations, 2) analysis of the positions and arguments put forward, 3) generalization of the hypotheses and concepts proposed. Traditional methods for works of this nature were used
  (analysis, synthesis, heuristic, descriptive). The decline in the number of voters was constant.
  As in the rest of the world, it primarily affected those structures that were not perceived as
  significant. This led to a gradual lowering of the electoral barrier, even to its abolition. The
  statement about “voting with one’s feet” as a result of disappointment in the socio-economic
  transformations of the 1990s became a common place in the sociologists’ reasoning. The active
  part of the electorate, affiliated with certain political forces and organizations, reacted
  sensitively to mass media reports of falsifications. The general decline in voter turnout was
  perfectly exploited by political technologists for the benefit of their clients. The first steps of
  the Russian electoral sociology were not able to improve the situation in the socio-political
  orientation of the electorate.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: electoral sociology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: voting turnout
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: absenteeism
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “Voting with feet”: Russian electoral sociology on the problem of voter turnout (1989–1996)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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