Publisher: Pragma Publishing
Online publication date: December 2023
Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.62483/19430535
Attila Mráz and Annabelle Lever
ABSTRACT
One of the guiding assumptions of the REDEM project is that shifting the study of the ethics of voting to a voter-centred perspective improves our understanding of the ethical challenges and moral dilemmas facing European voters and opens new avenues of electoral institutional design to mitigate them. The present chapter substantiates this assumption by pursuing the following three aims:
The chapter also serves two more general purposes. First, its findings provide normative input into the ethical burden that European political and electoral systems currently impose on voters. Second, it provides academic input into education for democratic citizenship, to sensitise young voters and future voters to the ethical complexity of the choices they may face, and to the skills and attitudes needed to exercise and defend their democratic rights and responsibilities in society.