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秩序与混乱之间:城市选民最近选举行为的“弱法”?

Between order and disorder: a 'weak law' on recent electoral behavior among urban voters?

Christian Borghesi, Jean Chiche, Jean-Pierre Nadal

摘要:

本文通过对各国大量全国性选举中候选人、空白人和无效人比例以及候选人名单投票的统计研究,提出了关于选举参与的新观点。考虑到11个没有强制投票的国家(奥地利、加拿大、捷克共和国、法国、德国、意大利、墨西哥、波兰、罗马尼亚、西班牙和瑞士),当计算与三个比率相关的熵时,人口最多的城市出现了一个程式化的事实,我们称之为选民的公民参与熵。这种熵的分布(在所有选举和国家中)似乎在一个共同值附近急剧上升。自20世纪70年代以来,人口最多的城市的选民通常都有这种几乎共同的价值观,尽管投票制度和选举类型之间存在很大差异。进行不同的统计分析,我们特别表明,这种程式化的事实揭示了空白/无效的选票和propositionists比率之间的特定相关性。我们认为,这种隐藏的规律性的存在,我们建议硬币作为一个“弱法律最近的城市选民的选举行为”,揭示了一个新兴的集体行为规范的特点,在现代民主国家的城市公民投票行为。分析规则的例外情况可以深入了解这种规范行为可能发生的条件。

英文摘要:

A new viewpoint on electoral involvement is proposed from the study of the statistics of the proportions of abstentionists, blank and null, and votes according to list of choices, in a large number of national elections in different countries. Considering 11 countries without compulsory voting (Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Spain and Switzerland), a stylized fact emerges for the most populated cities when one computes the entropy associated to the three ratios, which we call the entropy of civic involvement of the electorate. The distribution of this entropy (over all elections and countries) appears to be sharply peaked near a common value. This almost common value is typically shared since the 1970's by electorates of the most populated municipalities, and this despite the wide disparities between voting systems and types of elections. Performing different statistical analyses, we notably show that this stylized fact reveals particular correlations between the blank/null votes and abstentionists ratios. We suggest that the existence of this hidden regularity, which we propose to coin as a `weak law on recent electoral behavior among urban voters', reveals an emerging collective behavioral norm characteristic of urban citizen voting behavior in modern democracies. Analyzing exceptions to the rule provide insights into the conditions under which this normative behavior can be expected to occur.

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