Declining voter turnout may express rational withdrawal from insignificant politics.

Evidence

Perhaps the advancing decline in voter participation in almost all developed democracies does not simply reflect a decline in the consciousness of civic duties, but rather a deeper rationality of voters who thereby express their sense of the increasing insignificance of politics for the course of history by withdrawing from it. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 718

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even functioning democracy requires publics that stay put in place. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 712; Low voter turnout may indicate absence of distrust rather than failure of support; Low voter turnout can signal satisfied acceptance rather than government failure. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 772 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Low voter turnout may indicate absence of distrust rather than failure of support #corroborates (0.80)
• Low voter turnout can signal satisfied acceptance rather than government failure. #corroborates (0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 772
• Voting’s low decisive-ballot probability makes it irrational absent citizen-duty benefits #corroborates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2513