Abstract
Abstract
This chapter explains alternative views about the nature and value of childhood, and how particular conceptions of childhood matter to children’s voting rights. It does not defend any particular view on this matter; rather, it explains how recent accounts of what is uniquely good or bad about being a child bear on arguments for and against enfranchising children. The chapter also explains why children who live in a society in which many adults fail to comply with their duties of intergenerational justice have a weightier interest in voting and, hence, why the case for children’s enfranchisement is stronger in such cases.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford