The Consolidation of democracy in the European Union member states : the quality of democracy and its influence on voter turnout

Treball de Fi de Grau en Ciències Poítiques i de l'Administració. Curs 2018-2019Tutor: Abelardo Gómez DíazThe intervention of the citizens in the decision making process of their private and public life is crucial in the essential meaning of democracy. The current paper is about the voter turnout in the European Union Member States. It aims to fill the gap in the literature which looks at voter turnout as the result of specific variables but it pays little attention to its relationship with the quality of democracy as a whole. For this reason, the current paper intends to answer the following research question: How does the quality of democracy in the European Union Member States affect their voter turnout in the parliamentary elections of the last 10 years