The Frontiers of Democracy

The Right to Vote and its Limits
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-21963-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

The Frontiers of Democracy offers a comprehensive examination of restrictions on the vote in democracies today. For the first time, the reasons for excluding people (prisoners, children, intellectually disabled, non-citizens) from the suffrage in contemporary societies is critically examined from the point of view of democratic theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckman, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Universal Suffrage on Trial Democracy and Inclusion Alienated from the Vote: The Case of Non-Citizens Too Young to Vote? Children's Suffrage Jailhouse Vote? Felon Disenfranchisement and Democractic Inclusion  Disability, Dependence and Democracy The Vote of Unborn Generations Conclusions: Reasonable Inclusion and Exclusion

Über Autor(innen)

LUDVIG BECKMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden. He took his PhD at Uppsala University and has since published on genetics and privacy, children's rights, environmental justice, political professionalism and democratic theory.