The Meanings of Voting for Citizens: A Scientific Challenge, a Portrait, and Implications

Explores diverse conceptualizations of voting in citizens from 13 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.

Provides extensive empirical evidence as the book is based on nearly a million words collected from over 25,000 people through open-ended surveys and both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Questions the universal views on democracy, revealing how the meaning of voting varies among individuals and across different political systems, including both liberal democracies and electoral autocracies.