The Frontiers of Democracy

The Right to Vote and its Limits

• Author(s): L. Beckman,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 229
• ISBN_10: 0230244963
  ISBN_13: 9780230244962
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / History & Theory , Philosophy / Political , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy , Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections , Political Science / Comparative Politics ,

Description:... 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.