This article is about the political strategy in parliament. For Christian theological positions relating to alcoholic beverages, see Christianity and alcohol. For the US legal doctrine, see Abstention doctrine.
Abstentionism is the political practice of standing for election to a deliberative assembly while refusing to take up any seats won or otherwise participate in the assembly's business. Abstentionism differs from an election boycott in that abstentionists participate in the election itself. Abstentionism has been used by Irish republican political movements in the United Kingdom and Ireland since the early 19th century. It was also used by Hungarian and Czech nationalists in the Austrian Imperial Council in the 1860s.[1]
^Agnew, Hugh LeCaine (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Hoover Press. pp. 1895–96. ISBN 978-0-8179-4492-6.
assembly's business. Abstentionism differs from an election boycott in that abstentionists participate in the election itself. Abstentionism has been used by...
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(Ireland). The Provisional IRA (PIRA) broke from the OIRA in 1969 due to abstentionism and differing views on how to deal with the increasing violence in Northern...
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Petition Picketing Strike action Tax resistance Voting (or its opposite, abstentionism) Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend...
deciding that not imbibing was wisest in the present circumstances ("abstentionism") or prohibiting all ordinary consumption of alcohol because it was...
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to Colonial Countries and Peoples in 1960 with no votes against but abstentions from all major colonial powers. The UN works towards decolonization through...
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absolute majority requires more than half all votes including ballots of abstention. A majority is different from a plurality (sometimes called a relative...
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occupation and statehood by 2017, did not pass due to opposition and abstentions. In January 2015, the International Criminal Court affirmed Palestine's...
(MPs) elected were Sinn Féin members who were elected on a platform of abstentionism from the British House of Commons. In January 1919, they set up an Irish...
ethanol consumption brought no mortality benefit compared with lifetime abstention from ethanol consumption. Some studies have concluded that drinking small...
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