Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:06:58 +0200Marked falloff in voter turnout specific to post-communist states, says sociologist Lukáš Linekhttps://english.radio.cz/marked-falloff-voter-turnout-specific-post-communist-states-says-sociologist-8540615© 2026 Radio Prague International After extremely high turnout in elections in the early 1990s, why has voter participation fallen to around the 60 percent mark in the Czech Republic? And why are young people in particular staying away from polling stations? These are questions considered at length by the sociologist Lukáš Linek, the title of whose most recent book Kam se ztratili voliči? translates as Where have the voters gone? When we spoke recently, I asked Linek what had been his main findings. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/volby_7.jpg?timestamp=1591174814 Marked falloff in voter turnout specific to post-communist states, says sociologist Lukáš Linek https://english.radio.cz/marked-falloff-voter-turnout-specific-post-communist-states-says-sociologist-8540615 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9