Now in 2012, polls indicate that voter apathy is widespread, suggesting that the public is skeptical of the government's promises for democratic reforms. (ibtimes.com)
Voter apathy refers to individuals not voting in elections because they feel like their participation will not make a difference. (kubatana.net)
Crewe et al (1992) distinguish between voter apathy and voter alienation as the basis of low political motivation. (kubatana.net)
There have been episodes of voter apathy in Zimbabwe elections since 1980. (kubatana.net)
But there was widespread voter apathy and preoccupation with the security situation amid Azerbaijan's military buildup along the border and around Nagorno-Karabakh. (eurasianet.org)
Indifference3
Apathy denotes a lack of feeling of personal responsibility, a passivity and indifference for political affairs. (kubatana.net)
Rather, widespread apathy and indifference could be at the root of such a low turnout. (atlanticcouncil.org)
This is what is needed to reverse the population's low morale and begin resolving issues of apathy and indifference. (atlanticcouncil.org)
Herrmann3
In this installment of "Let's Talk," Dr Herrmann discusses the limited research on marijuana's effect on agitation and aggression in Alzheimer's disease, despite widespread interest in the subject. (psychiatrist.com)
Apathy, say Lanctôt and Herrmann, has been determined to be the primary cause of distress and frustration for 65% of caregivers. (sunnybrook.ca)
Lanctôt, a scientist in the discipline of clinical integrative biology at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), and Herrmann, an associate scientist in the same discipline at SRI and head of geriatric psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, have spent the last several years studying the connection between apathy and AD. (sunnybrook.ca)
It's a powerful position to take in the face of nothing less soul-emptying than apathy, and alarming statistics that reveal a widespread incidence of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffering debilitating bouts therewith. (sunnybrook.ca)
The reign of strongman presidents and the routine use of electoral fraud and manipulation have produced widespread apathy, resignation, and cynicism about the prospects for democracy in the Caucasus. (journalofdemocracy.org)
Voters1
The polls will take place in an atmosphere of widespread public apathy, as voters choose from a list of presidential candidates that has been heavily vetted beforehand. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
Decline1
Finally, and sadly, known diseases can re-emerge if public health measures are reduced or decline because of complacency or apathy of individuals, communities or policy-makers, as exemplified by reduced vaccine coverage or childhood immunization programmes, or reduced vector control, or because of civil conflict. (who.int)
Motivation2
Apathy-defined as a lack of motivation and self-initiated action-affects between 36% and 42% of patients with mild dementia, and up to 80% of patients with moderate dementia. (sunnybrook.ca)
Intrigued by the role of the brain neurotransmitter, dopomenedopamine, the scientists worked to determine whether the area of the brain where dopamine is an important neurotransmitter for motivation would function differently in patients with apathy than in patients without it. (sunnybrook.ca)
Lack of interest2
Apathy, lack of interest and even outright denial are more widespread than they were in 2008. (newscientist.com)
Changing the financial requirement for membership without addressing the widespread lack of interest in attending synagogue or engaging in a Jewish life is going to yield more of the same long term: low participation and apathy. (jta.org)
Democracy1
So, our C-19 response and its widespread synchronicity (of measures and its timing) illustrates - the argument goes - nothing else but a social pathology of hostage crisis: the non-transparent concentration of power, and our overall democracy recession - further bolstering the management of apathy via surveillance and social control systems. (eurasiareview.com)
Political1
It is, of course, now on the shoulders of political parties to use municipalities as a tool for earnest outreach to Tunisians and reverse the effects of those lost to apathy. (atlanticcouncil.org)
People1
Says Lanctôt, "These people still have the cognitive ability to do things like dress themselves, but they have so much apathy that they don't try. (sunnybrook.ca)
Public2
providing practical and inclusive recommendations designed to correct the apathy and neglect of the past decades to support bringing mental health into the mainstream of public health. (who.int)
Anaemia is a widespread public health problem in Bangladesh, affecting the lives of 27 million children, adolescents and women. (who.int)
Risks1
The survey also suggests that apathy amongst digital service users may be fuelling the risks. (yougov.co.uk)
Patients3
Your older patients with apathy are at substantially increased risk of developing slow gait, frailty, and disability. (psychiatrist.com)
To that end, they have been studying whether there are brain areas affected in apathetic patients with AD and apathy sufferers that are distinct from patients with AD who are not apathetic. (sunnybrook.ca)
The first randomized, placebo-controlled trial of methylphenidate (brand name Ritalin, which targets dopamine) for the treatment of apathy in AD was a three-year exercise that revealed a considerable improvement in some of the patients with apathy. (sunnybrook.ca)
Society2
Dr. Norgaard noted the widespread apathy for climate change in our society is actually collective denial. (oregonstate.edu)
Lack of government policy support has been the single biggest reason holding back the widespread adoption of auto LPG in India," says Suyash Gupta, Director General, IAC. (thehindubusinessline.com)
Album5
Honkey Kong is the third studio album by American rapper Apathy, released August 23, 2011. (wikipedia.org)
Producers for Honkey Kong such as DJ Premier and Vanderslice contribute to a limited number of beats on this album, though the majority of the production is handled by Apathy himself. (wikipedia.org)
Along with the album, Apathy released the Primate Mindstate EP as a bonus disc to the album. (wikipedia.org)
The album received an "XL" rating from hip hop magazine XXL, calling Apathy a "lyrical wizard" and praising his story telling abilities. (wikipedia.org)
Met with widespread apathy, the album quickly fell out of print and a second album was never released by MCA, who duly dropped him. (musicianguide.com)
Church1
As a committed evangelical Protestant with a great respect for the history of Christian doctrine, I subscribed to a fairly widespread non-Catholic view of Church history: a vague, ethereal, semi-legendary conception of the early Church as quasi-Protestant, and lacking those elements that are now called "Catholic distinctives. (patheos.com)
Lead1
3] It is also thought that frontal dysfunction due to widespread involvement of subcortical structures in vascular dementia may lead to a dysexecutive syndrome with abulia and apathy. (medscape.com)
Past1
Second, apathy is now much more widespread than in the past. (lse.ac.uk)
Back1
Criticizing mainstream Tamil intellectuals for their apathy and for failing to keep up with important changes in South Asian geo-politics, he further says that a nation s ability to spring back to its feet politically depends on how soon it is able to organize itself intellectually. (tamilnet.com)
Strategy2
Basically, the Bush administration is banking on widespread apathy as a major part of its reelection strategy. (peoplesworld.org)
Atlanta's civic and business leaders have worked for more than a generation to project an image of a thriving, welcoming city in a region where reactive politics and entrenched poverty are widespread and that strategy has borne fruit. (ncrp.org)
Human1
The mental health care systems continue to suffer from neglect and apathy with the inade- quate allocation of human, structural, institutional, and financial resources. (who.int)