What Exactly Is A Duty to Vote ?

Dan Usher

No 273765, Queen's Economics Department Working Papers from Queen's University - Department of Economics

Abstract: A duty to vote may be interpreted narrowly as no more than an obligation to cast one’s ballot, supporting a party or candidate in one’s own interest exclusively or, if one so pleases, with some regard for the community as a whole. Alternatively, a duty to vote may be interpreted broadly as including an obligation to vote for the party or candidate seen as best for society as a whole. This essay is a defence of the narrower, less stringent, duty, with no obligation about whom to vote for except in so far as viciousness or outright injustice is expected from the election of a party or candidates for office.

Keywords: Financial Economics; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2011-10
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.273765

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