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The Politics of Democratic Representation: Enfranchisement and Participation Revisited book cover

1st Edition

The Politics of Democratic Representation Enfranchisement and Participation Revisited

Edited By Benjamin Boudou, Marcus Carlsen Häggrot Copyright 2025
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge
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The book discusses boundaries of electoral inclusion and mechanisms of electoral representation in contemporary democracies. While the ancient Athenians took the idea of rule by the people to require direct popular participation in public decision-making and the appointment of officials by lottery mechanisms, democracy is nowadays interpreted electorally. We partake in government mostly by... Read more

Introduction: Electoral representation revisited
Benjamin Boudou and Marcus Carlsen Häggrot

1. Is child disenfranchisement justified?
Nico Brando

2. Universal enfranchisement for citizens with cognitive disabilities – A moral-status argument
Regina Schidel

3. Should refugees in the European Union have voting rights?
Ali Emre Benli

4. Legislative expatriate representation: A conditional defence of overseas constituencies
Marcus Carlsen Häggrot

5. What’s wrong with the presentist bias? On the threat of intergenerational domination
Anja Karnein

6. Representing non-citizens: A proposal for the inclusion of all affected interests
Benjamin Boudou

 

Biography

Benjamin Boudou is Professor of political theory at the University of Rennes, France.

Marcus Carlsen Häggrot is a political theorist and post-doctoral researcher at Sciences Po, France.

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