Three CAE economists suggest practical solutions to combat abstention.
“I can’t ignore the strong abstention, voting is essential“, gravely stated the Head of State, during his speech last Tuesday. It is 53.77% of voters who have indeed abandoned the ballot box during the second round of the legislative elections, a rate up by 1.28 points compared to the first round. A few weeks earlier, abstention in the second round of the presidential election had already climbed to 28.01%, up 2.6 points from 2017.
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Since then, commentators have been talking endlessly. The themes advanced to apprehend it are legion: crisis of democracy, feeling of disaffiliation of young people, fragmentation of opinions, explosion of social networks… In this flood of reflections, the note that the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), a think-tank attached to Matignon, published last week, stands out for its quantitative ambition. Signed by the economists Jean Beuve, Étienne Fize and Vincent Pons, this study mobilizes the techniques of…
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