Charles Q. Choi (November 2007). "The Genetics of Politics". Scientific American (Print). Scientific American, Inc. pp. 18, 21. ...the desire to vote or abstain from politics might largely be hardwired into our biology
"The Power Report". makeitanissue.org.uk. The Power Inquiry. 2007-01-19. Archived from the original on 2007-12-08. Retrieved 2008-06-24. The Power Commission was established to discover what is happening to our democracy. It sought to establish why people were disengaging from formal democratic politics in Britain and how these trends could be reversed.
"Voter Turnout". FairVote. Voting and Democracy Research Center. Archived from the original on 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2008-06-24. Voter Turnout is a fundamental quality of fair elections and is generally considered to be a necessary factor for a healthy democracy.
Michael McDonald (2008-04-01). "Voter Turnout". United States Elections Project. Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2008-06-24. Statistics on voter turnout presented here show that the much-lamented decline in voter participation is an artifact of the way in which it is measured.
Rhonda Parkinson (2007-03-01). "Voter Turnout in Canada". Maple Leaf Web. Archived from the original on 2008-06-14. Retrieved 2008-06-23. Since the 1980s, voter turnout in federal elections has fallen sharply.