Very good analysis on the phenomenon of growing numbers of non-voters, unfortunately it is only available in German.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31205/1.html
I knew that "tyranny" back in ancient Greece was not associated with a quality of evil and being bad in general like the term is being used today, but was considered as a neutral description only. But I did not know that in Athens free elections as we hold them today were seen as oligarchic (and thus reprehensive), but as democratic they considered to distribute offices by drawing lots.
Hehe.