L. Beckman

Gebundenes Buch

The Frontiers of Democracy

The Right to Vote and its Limits

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

LUDVIG BECKMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden. He took his PhD at Uppsala University and has since published on genetics and privacy, children's rights, environmental justice, political professionalism and democratic theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-21963-2
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780230219632
• ISBN-10: 0230219632
• Artikelnr.: 26605203