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The Economic Analysis Council has used disciplinary techniques to measure the effectiveness of the various measures to combat abstention.
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By Marc Vignaud
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Leconomists have their remedies for combating electoral abstention. In a note published at the right time just after the legislative elections*, the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), an independent body responsible for advising the government, mobilized their specific techniques to combat the drop in voter turnout observed in almost all the great democracies of the world since the 1980s.
“The stronger the abstention, the more unequal the participation, underlines one of the co-authors of the study, Vincent Pons, an economist specializing in democratic representation at the American University of Harvard. Abstention is higher among the working classes and among young people, which means that the electorate is less and less representative of the…
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