Determinantes de la participacion electoral en Colombia: un estudio de caso en las eleccciones presidenciales de 2018.

Abstract

Electoral participation is a fundamental characteristic of democracy in nations and in the economy we identify it as economic development. The freedom of individuals to make use of their participatory exercise and to represent an opinion in the public policies of each government. However, in many cases the political structures do not match the political culture creating cultural instability, abstentionism is one of the consequences that can come out of this process. "Culture is constituted by the frequency of different species of cognitive, affective and evaluative orientations towards the political system in general" (Almond & Sidney 1962 p.30), these policy orientations or preferences will identify the type of society and degree of political development each country may have. This research aims to show that it identifies us when we want to do our democratic exercise. Data from the 2019 DANE Political Culture Survey were taken. The election dependent variable will be binary, subject to whether the person voted in the 2018 elections or not, making use of a Logit model. In turn this will be explained by socio-demographic variables of institutional individual and political resources, where socio-demographic characteristics contributed to the decision to vote.