abstentionism

• “Election officials themselves have declared that "the candidate to beat is abstentionism," as many voters may stay away from the polls in protest or out of fear.”

  The Huffington Post: Christopher Sabatini: Sunday's Elections Left As Risky Option in Honduras

• “Instead, the coup led to an increase in abstentionism, which would be consistent with a rise in the apathy or disgust of Honduran voters with the political establishment.”

  Daniel Altschuler: Honduran Election Winner Clear, But Turnout Questions Remain

• “Already, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has expressed its deep concern with abstentionism.”

  Daniel Altschuler: The Municipal Politics of the Honduran Crisis

• “Often clan loyalties proved to be as crucial a factor as the more grandiose issues of armed struggle and abstentionism.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “Firstly, there would have been those like Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Dáithí Ó Conaill who treated the principle of abstentionism and all that Second Dail bullshit with almost biblical sacredness.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “Many people in Irish history have moved from abstentionism to participating in various assemblies they previously found distasteful.”

  Coming north or going nowhere?

• “Just how come abstentionism was anathema in 1969 but OK by 1986?”

  Another nail in the coffin

• “It is worth questioning whether he ever had much time for old republican principles like abstentionism, a principle that he and the Belfast element gladly ditched when given the chance at an Ard Fheis in 1986.”

  Archive 2007-11-01

• “There are serious problems of voter apathy and abstentionism in many of these countries.”

  DEBATING CASTELLS AND CARNOY ON THE NETWORK SOCIETY1

• “Revisionist activism thus triumphed over orthodox abstentionism.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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