Abstract
In his article "Ruling the Void?, Peter Mair has investigated the decline of the conventional political patterns, and more precisely the average citizen's demobilization towards the traditional political parties in most of the old settled Western democracies. This trend has been largely studied by political sciences literature, and all the social scientists have come to the same conclusion: there is an undisputable and general decline in the membership of political parties, as well as an increasing electoral turnout Overall there is a decline in level political trusts, all over the Western democracies since the nineties. The there are multiple reasons and consequences of such a decline invoked by Mair. According to him, this decline would be the consequence of a general indifference and disinterest of citizens towards politics and more precisely towards their political leaders. This indifference and disengagement from the traditional political parties is due to several causes.
