Abstention in Mexico and New Forms of Participation

Abstract

When we try to study abstention in electoral process it is not because we want to count how millions of citizens leave their vote in blank or they just abstinence of their vote. Abstention means an overview of the political culture that constitutes a nation. We can see how gradually, small expression movements of civil society reconfigure political communication dynamics that have come to simplify democracy to an exercise of suffrage. Through the phenomenon of abstinence of the electoral vote and the exploration of theoretical lines of abstention we try to demonstrate that Mexican institutions have before their eyes an action field to implement reforms that give voice to majority’s silence.