The Modeling Technologies in the Electoral Companies: «Downs’s paradoxes», «Olson’s paradoxes», «Voting»

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Keywords:

electoral activity, modeling the behavior of voters, the paradoxes of «Downs», «Olson», «Voting»

Abstract

The important and actual problem of the electoral behavior of voters in a democratic society are considered. A number of models, the «paradoxes» that arise in the process of organizing and conducting election campaigns and influence the activity of participation in elections are analyzed. Also the factors that determine coming to the polls and voting are considered, Underlines relationship of individual and collective electoral activity. Discusses the problems of forecasting the level of electoral activity and possibilities of control.

Author Biographies

  • Volodymyr Poltorak, Alfred Nobel University, 18 Naberezhna Sicheslavska str., Dnipro 49000, Ukraine

    Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Political Science, Sociology and the Humanities

  • Olena Shinkarenko, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, 20 st. Hetmanska, Melitopol, 72300, Ukraine

    PhD in Sociology, lecturer at the Department of Sociology

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Published

2015-11-23

Issue

No. 1148 (2015)

Section

Empirical Researches of Modern Society

How to Cite

The Modeling Technologies in the Electoral Companies: «Downs’s paradoxes», «Olson’s paradoxes», «Voting». (2015). Visnyk of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series Sociological Studies of Contemporary Society: Methodology, Theory, Methods, 1148, 82-85. https://periodicals.karazin.ua/ssms/article/view/4474

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