Democracy and Disenfranchisement
Subtitle: The Morality of Electoral Exclusions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 19, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780198705789
Description: The denial of voting rights to certain types of persons continues to be a moral problem of practical significance. The disenfranchisement of persons with mental impairments, minors, non-citizen residents, non-resident citizens, and criminal offenders is a matter of controversy. How should we think morally about electoral exclusions? What should we conclude about these particular cases? This book proposes a set of principles, called the Critical Suffrage Doctrine, that defies conventional beliefs on the legitimate denial of the franchise.
Notes: Source title: Democracy and Disenfranchisement: The Morality of Electoral Exclusions