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  • This thesis is focused on studying centrist abstention, by analysing crosscountrydifferences and also, centrist individuals’ propensity to turn out.Despite the literature claiming that abstention is higher on the left, this dissertationproves that the centre abstains more, which constitutes a paradoxand a neglected aspect until now. By studying centrist abstention in differentEuropean countries, I highlight another unattended perspective: some factorsthat induce abstention may have a heterogeneous effect depending onindividuals’ position on the ideological scale. After integrating two groupsof factors that the literature has considered separately and can potentiallyexplain this phenomenon, the first article shows that variation on centristabstention rates across countries is explained, above all, by certain party configurations.In a second step, the analysis focuses on centrist self-placement,partially accepting the conventional idea that the centre is only a refuge forthose with low political sophistication and putting emphasis on other hypotheseslike the role of parties. The last part of the thesis concentrates preciselyon the heterogeneous effect of alienation and indifference, two controversialparty scenarios whose impact is still unknown. Overall, this thesisoffers both a comprehensive study and a new approach to explain why centristabstention is observed (xsd:string)
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