Overview
- Examines children's possibilities for voting rights by examining theoretical, historical, and practical issues
- Cross-disciplinary contributors include leading scholars within their fields
- Responds to a growing call among children and child advocates to give youth the right to vote in various ways
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Frameworks
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume offers a critical, thorough, and interdisciplinary examination of arguments for eliminating the minimum democratic voting age. As children and youth increasingly assert their political voices on issues such as climate change, gun legislation, Black Lives Matter, and education reform, calls for youth enfranchisement merit further academic conversation. Leading scholars in childhood studies, political science, philosophy, history, law, medicine, and economics come together in this collection to explore the diverse assumptions behind excluding children from voting rights and why these are open to question. While arriving at different and sometimes competing conclusions, each chapter deconstructs the idea of voting as necessarily tied to age while reconstructing a more democratic imagination able to enfranchise the third of humanity made up by children and youth. Thus, this book defines and establishes a new field of academic study and public debate around children'ssuffrage.
Chapter “The Reform that never happened: a history of children's suffrage restrictions” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
John Wall is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Childhood Studies, at Rutgers University Camden, USA. He also co-founded the international organization Children's Voting Colloquium. He has previously written and edited eight books, including Give Children the Vote (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Children's Suffrage
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageless Voting
Editors: John Wall
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14541-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14540-7Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14543-8Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14541-4Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Children, Youth and Family Policy, Political Science, Youth Culture, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Political Science and International Relations, general, Philosophy of the Social Sciences