7% to around 13%. These results are not dissimilar in other countries.
… The fact that lower turnout means increasingly unequal turnout is troubling, because those least likely to turnout are overwhelmingly drawn from the least privileged social groups in a polity. Thus, the IPPR report notes that though socioeconomic status - whether measured by income, class or education – is not as significant a factor as age in determining whether a person will vote or not, it has nevertheless become an increasingly significant factor – at least in the UK. although there has been some decline in turnout among all income categories since 1964, the decline is most rapid for those with the lowest income. So, it looks as though those people who do least well in our societies are least likely to vote and in what seems to be a vicious circle,
those least likely to vote are least likely to attract sympathetic attention from politicians eager to get
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