I certanily agree with you that in the past years the governments relationship with the citzens have changed dramatically. I too mentioned that today people do not understand the importance of voting. I never really thought about the fact that people do not vote simply because they do not trust the government. I have never understood why we are seen as the model of democracy when our voting turnouts have been tremendously low in the past decades. As you mentioned countries like Belgium and Turkey have compulsory-voting laws within their countries. So, this means that they require all registered voter to vote or they may receive a consequence. Those consequences are like fines, requirement to service community service hours, or mainly things
