TY - BOOK ID - 118186616 TI - Exploring Children's Suffrage : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageless Voting PY - 2022 SN - 3031145410 3031145402 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Voting age. KW - Youth KW - Political activity. KW - Politics and young people KW - Youth in politics KW - Young adults KW - Age KW - Suffrage KW - Family policy. KW - Human rights. KW - Sociology. KW - Social groups. KW - Political science. KW - Philosophy and social sciences. KW - Children, Youth and Family Policy. KW - Politics and Human Rights. KW - Youth Culture. KW - Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. KW - Politics and International Studies. KW - Philosophy of the Social Sciences. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social sciences and philosophy KW - Social sciences KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - State, The KW - Association KW - Group dynamics KW - Groups, Social KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Social participation KW - Social theory KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Human rights KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Families KW - Families and state KW - State and families KW - Public welfare KW - Social security KW - Social policy KW - Law and legislation KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118186616 AB - 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's suffrage. 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. 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). . ER -