Overview
- Treats the youth vote as an affirmative participation right guaranteed in the ICRC
- Analyses political incentives underlying the legislative bar to the youth vote
- Assesses the implications the global movement for the youth vote for democratic institutions
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 6)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Philosophical Context of the Minimum Voting Age Question
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Socio-Cultural Factors and the Minimum Voting Age
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Voting Age Eligibility: Human Rights Issue or Social Policy Matter?
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A Victory for the Vote at 16 in Austria Goes Largely Ignored in Other States
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Rationalizing of the Violation of U.K. Youth’s Inherent Right to Suffrage
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The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Eligible Voting Age
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Barriers Coming From Unlikely Sources to Youth’s Struggle to Access the Basic Human Right to Suffrage
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Re-Examining Alleged Rationales for the Bar Against the Vote for Under 18s
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Voting Age Eligibility and the Societal Marginalization of Under 18s
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Unequal Treatment in Accessing the Inherent Right to Suffrage
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Keywords
- Children's human rights
- Children’s democratic participation rights
- Comparative Law
- Constitutional inadequacies
- Democratic participation
- Human Rights
- International Convention on the Rights of the Child
- North American and Commonwealth legislative bar to voting
- Particpation rights
- Political Participation
- Politics of voting age
- Social Justice
- Voting rights
- Youth democratic participation
- Youth human rights
- Youth participation rights
- Youth voting rights
About this book
Young People’s Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age explores the broader societal implications of voting age eligibility requirements and the legislative bar against youth voting in North America and in Commonwealth countries (where ‘youth’ is defined as persons 16 and over but under age 18). The issue is raised as to whether the denial of the youth vote undermines democratic principles and values and ultimately the human dignity of youth. This is the first book to address the topic of the youth vote in-depth as a fundamental human rights concern relating to the entitlement in a democracy to societal participation and inclusion in influencing policy and law which profoundly affects one’s life. Also examined are international perspectives on the issue of voting age eligibility. The book would be extremely valuable for instructional purposes as one of the primary texts in undergraduate or graduate courses on children’s human rights, political psychology, political science , sociology of law or society and as a supplementary text for courses on human rights or constitutional law and would be of interest also to members of the general public concerned with children’s human rights issues.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Young People’s Human Rights and the Politics of Voting Age
Authors: Sonja C. Grover
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8963-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8962-5Published: 09 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3371-8Published: 01 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8963-2Published: 05 October 2010
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 270
Topics: Political Science, Law, general, Developmental Psychology, Law and Psychology, Sociology, general