Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2006
Abstract:
This article is an examination of the issue of whether the age of electoral majority should be lowered to sixteen. We consider and reject several arguments raised by both sides of the voting age debate. The key issue, we claim, is the political maturity of young people. Drawing on empirical data collected in nationally representative surveys, we argue that the weight of such evidence suggests that young people are, to a significant degree, politically less mature than older people, and that the voting age should not be lowered to sixteen.
Published in
Political Studies
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 54 , p.533 -558
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00620.x
ISSN
323217
Subjects
#508772