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Give children the vote : on democratizing democracy / John Wall.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London, England : Zed Books, 2021Distributor: [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350196315
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 338.90095 23
LOC classification:
  • HC412 W24 2022eb
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also published in print.
Contents:
Voting over history -- Competence -- Knowledge -- Power -- Outcomes for children -- Outcomes for societies -- The proxy-claim vote -- Manifesto.
Summary: "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, harms to children, and much more. And it develops a detailed childist theory of voting based on holding elected representatives maximally inclusive of the people's different lived experiences. The book also introduces the concept of proxy-claim voting, wherein parents or guardians exercise proxy votes for non-competent persons, including but not only young children, until whatever time those persons choose to claim or reclaim their vote for themselves. Ultimately, the book maps out a new vision of democratic voting that, by equally empowering children, is at last genuinely democratic"
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Voting over history -- Competence -- Knowledge -- Power -- Outcomes for children -- Outcomes for societies -- The proxy-claim vote -- Manifesto.

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"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, harms to children, and much more. And it develops a detailed childist theory of voting based on holding elected representatives maximally inclusive of the people's different lived experiences. The book also introduces the concept of proxy-claim voting, wherein parents or guardians exercise proxy votes for non-competent persons, including but not only young children, until whatever time those persons choose to claim or reclaim their vote for themselves. Ultimately, the book maps out a new vision of democratic voting that, by equally empowering children, is at last genuinely democratic"

Also published in print.

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