Give Children the Vote

On Democratizing Democracy

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ID6554483
AuthorsJohn Wall (0000-0003-0737-6505)
Year2021
Pages240
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGive Children the Vote (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781350196315
OpenAlexW3216804115
Open LibraryOL33916208M
ISBN9781350196285, 9781350196315
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. In each case, the meaning of democracy itself has been transformed. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third of humanity who are under 18 years of age. However, children are becoming increasingly active in political movements for climate regulation, labor rights, gun control, transexual identity, and racial justice. And these have lead to a growing global movement in favor of children voting. This book argues that it is time to give children the vote. Using political theory and drawing on childhood studies, it shows why suffrage cannot legitimately be limited according to age, as well as why truly universal voting is beneficial to all and can help save today's crumbling democratic norms. It carefully responds to a wide range of objections concerning competence, knowledge, adult rights, power relations

Criminology · Democracy · Economic Justice · Humanity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Voting · Gender and Women's Rights · Law · Psychology · Election Law · Political activity · Political structures: democracy,Moral & social purpose of education · Youth

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