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In political science, political apathy is a lack of interest or apathy towards politics. [1] This includes voter apathy, information apathy [2] and lack of interest in elections, political events, public meetings, and voting. [3] Voter apathy is a lack of interest among voters in the elections of representative democracies.
In political science, voter fatigue is a cause of voter abstention which result from the electorates of representative democracies being asked to vote often, on too many issues or without easy access to relevant information. [1]
Google theorizes that individuals in this category suffer from political apathy, as they are interested in political life but believe that their individual effect would be negligible. [74] These individuals often participate politically on the local level, but shy away from national elections.
Apoliticism is apathy or antipathy towards all political affiliations. [1] A person may be described as apolitical if they are uninterested or uninvolved in politics. [2] Being apolitical can also refer to situations in which people take an unbiased position in regard to political matters. [3]
Others argue that young people are typically "plagued" by political apathy and thus do not have strong political opinions. As strong political opinions may be considered one of the reasons behind voting, [ 32 ] political apathy among young people is arguably a predictor for low voter turnout.
Related to the concept of a low information voter, voting correctly is a concept from political psychology that refers to a vote decision "that is the same as the choice which would have been made under conditions of full information."
In the alternative vote, ballot exhaustion occurs when a voter's ballot can no longer be counted, because all candidates on that ballot have been eliminated from an election.
A protest vote (also called a blank, null, spoiled, or "none of the above" vote) [1] is a vote cast in an election to demonstrate dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates or the current political system. [2] Protest voting takes a variety of forms and reflects numerous voter motivations, including political apathy. [3]