Voter Participation in the Colombian Election of 1856
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2799182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Bushnell (0000-0001-8736-8403, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237 |
| Publication date | 1971-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2512474 |
| OpenAlex | W4245140184, W2330034761 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
A CENTRAL THEME IN CURRENT DISCUSSIONS of Colombian A political behavior and in assessments of the viability of the National Front regime has been the degree of voter participation. ITe high rate of abstention in recent national elections has been frequently cited as evidence of political malaise and has been a source of growing concern to Colombian leaders themselves. Yet clearly this is not a new phenomenon: What was exceptional was the pattern of the earliest National Front elections, which showed an extremely high participation rate (e.g., 72% in the plebiscite of December, 1957). In any event, the question of electoral participation in all its ramifications is one of obvious importance, not only because of the common use of such participation as an indicator of political modernization, but also because the Colombian case appears to present an intriguing paradox: a generally low rate of participation in elections in a country that has long been noted for a high rate of party identification among the general populace.1 Unfortunately, the concrete examples that have been cited of past abstention/participation in Colombian elections normally refer to the twentieth century and especially to the period since 1930, for which complete official returns have been regularly published. Nineteenth-century data have been lacking, except for the occasional mention of isolated statistics of uncertain significance; and the lack is a
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1974 - 2025 (52) |
| Highly cited | No |