Abstract
Abstract. Taking as its starting point two articles published recently in the European Journal of Political Research (Vol. 18, No. 2), this note reviews critically the value of micro and macro approaches to the understanding of electoral participation, and the relationship between them. It suggests that while micro hypotheses make sense, macro hypotheses are difficult to interpret because they cannot be derived from any plausible theory about human motivation. The few deviant cases that exist at the macro level are perhaps better explained by a deeper understanding of their own conditions rather than using them to underpin a general aggregate level theory that is not capable of being understood in terms of micro level theory.
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