[EL] Interested in minimum voting age reform?

[Robin Chen]

Hi, folks,

Do you self-identify as interested in minimum voting age reform? Can you
recommend a friend or colleague who is? I'd like to invite those interested
to join the new Children Voting Colloquium listserv
<https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/children_voting_colloquium>.

I've searched the Election Law archives for "voting age," and "minimum
voting age," and the only threads that turned up were
-- "A 16-year-old voted," from November 2016, here
<https://department-lists.uci.edu/pipermail/law-election/2015-November/subject.html#12115>,
and
-- "Challenges Coming to Canada's Minimum Voting Age" <
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108085>

Likely I'm missing something by not being more creative with my search
terms, so please help me out.

For those who might like to spark an interest, I'm including some
references below.

Cheers,
Robin

*philosophy*,
- Oct 2014 John Wall (British, professor of ethics and childhood studies at
Rutgers
University) “Democratising Democracy: The Road from Women’s to Children’s
Suffrage”
https://johnwall.camden.rutgers.edu/files/2014/10/Democratising-DemocracyThe-Road-from-Womens-to-Childrens-Suffrage1.pdf

- Jan 2014 John Wall “Why Children and Youth Should Have the Right to Vote:
An
Argument for Proxy-Claim Suffrage”
https://johnwall.camden.rutgers.edu/files/Wall-Right-to-Vote-CYE-2014.pdf

*political philosophy*
-  Nov 2019 Nick Munn, "The Trap of Incrementalism in the Political
Inclusion of Children"
https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/13585/Munn%20-%20The%20Trap%20of%20Incrementalism%20in%20the%20Political%20Inclusion%20of%20Children.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

- Nov 2019 Jakob Hinze, “Does epistemic proceduralism justify the
disenfranchisement of children?”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449626.2019.1687569

- Sept 2019 "Infant political agency: Redrawing the epistemic boundaries of
democratic inclusion"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474885119874341

- August 2018 Lachlan Montgomery Umbers (University of New South Wales,
Australia) “Enfranchising the Youth”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698230.2018.1511172?journal
Code=fcri20

- 2018 Eric Wiland (Philosophy Professor, University of Missouri-St Louis)
"Should Children Have the Right to Vote?", Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy
and Public Policy, ed. D. Boonin, Palgrave MacMillan (2018), 215-224.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93907-0_17

- April 2015 Stephan Wolf, Nils Goldschmidt, and Thomas Petersen. “Votes on
Behalf of Children: A Legitimate Way of Giving Them a Voice in Politics?”
Constitutional Political Economy 26 (3): 356–74.
doi:10.1007/s10602-015-9190-6.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-015-9190-6

- January 2015 Jörg Tremmel and James Wilhelm. “Democracy or Epistocracy?
Age as a Criterion of Voter Eligibility.” In Youth Quotas and Other
Efficient
Forms of Youth Participation in Ageing Societies, edited by Jörg Tremmel,
125–47. Cham: Springer.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285602712_Youth_Quotas_and_oth
er_Efficient_Forms_of_Youth_Participation_in_Ageing_Societies

- Aug 2014 Claudio Lopez-Guerra “Democracy and Disenfranchisement: The
Morality of Electoral Exclusions”
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198705789.
001.0001/acprof-9780198705789

- June 2013 Philip Cook (Professor of Politics and International Relations
at
University of Edinburgh) “Against a Minimum Voting Age.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698230.2013.795707

- Jan 2012 Claudio López-Guerra (Professor of Political Theory, Mexico)
“Enfranchising Minors and the Mentally Impaired”
https://www.pdcnet.org/soctheorpract/content/soctheorpract_2012_0038_000
1_0115_0138

- 2009 Steven Lecce (Political Theorist Professor, Canada) “Should Democracy
Grow up?” http://www.igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/510/377

- 2004. Francis Schrag. “Children and Democracy: Theory and Policy.”
Politics,
Philosophy & Economics 3 (3): 365–79. doi:10.1177/1470594X04046248.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470594X04046248

- Autumn 1998 Philippe van Parijs (Belgian political philosopher and
political
economist) "The Disenfranchisement of the Elderly, and Other Attempts to
Secure Intergenerational Justice", Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 27,:
292-333.
http://profs-polisci.mcgill.ca/muniz/intergen/Van%20Parijs%20-%20Disenfran
chisement%20of%20the%20elderly.pdf

*economics*,
- 2020 Kamijo, Tamura, Hizen, "Effect of proxy voting for children under
the voting age on parental altruism towards future generations"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328720300598

- August 2019 Yoshio Kamijo, “Voting on Behalf of a Future Generation: A
Laboratory Experiment”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335044724_Voting_on_Behalf_of_a
_Future_Generation_A_Laboratory_Experiment

- 2012 Reiko Aoki "Demographic Perspective on Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’ ”,
Population & Development Review 38 (Supplement): 103–112 (2012).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00554.x

- 2009 Reiko Aoki & Rhema Vaithianathan "Is Demeny Voting the Answer to Low
Fertility in Japan?": http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/hitpiecis/435.htm

- 2009 Luigi Campiglio (Italy, Economics professor)"Children's Right to
Vote: the
Missing Link in Modern Democracies", Sociological Studies of Children and
Youth, Volume 12, 221-247.
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S1537-4661%282009%2900
00012014

*social science,*
- April 2013 Pieter Vanhuysse (Professor of Comparative Welfare State
Research at
the University of Southern Denmark) "Intergenerational Justice in Aging
Societies: A Cross-National Comparison of 29 OECD Countries"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2309278

- J Lawrence Aber Pg 202 of
https://firstfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Big-Ideas-2008.pdf

*medicine*
- "Improving Public Policy for Children: A Vote for Each Child," Robert H.
Pantell, Maureen T. Shannon
https://www.igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/511
- May 2019 Neena Modi, MD, (UK Professor of Neonatal Medicine at Imperial
College London) "Votes for a better future"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316523

*law*
- 2017 Joshua A. Douglas (Law Professor, University of Kentucky) "In
Defense of
Lowering the Voting Age", 165 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE 63
http://www.pennlawreview.com/online/165-U-Pa-L-Rev-Online-63.pdf

- June 2012, "Democratic Inclusion, Cognitive Development, and the Age of
Electoral Majority,"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2086875

- 2000 Robert W. Bennett (US, lawyer) "Should Parents Be Given Extra Votes
on
Account of Their Children: Toward a Conversational Understanding of American
Democracy", 94 Nw. U. L. Rev. 503.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=186071

- June 1998 Jane Rutherford (US, lawyer) Rutherford, Jane, "One Child, One
Vote:
Proxies for Parents" (1998). Minnesota Law Review. 1582.
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/1582

and *for a general readership*
- October 2019 Katherine Walton, “Votes for children: the case for
Universal Suffrage”
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/childrens-human-rights-network-blog/votes
-children-case-universal-suffrage

- Sept 2019 Kelsey Piper, "Young people have a stake in our future. Let
them vote."
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/10/20835327/voting-age-youth-rights-kids-vote

- March 2019 Noah Berlatsky, "Let 16-year-olds vote"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/09/opinions/let-teens-vote-ayanna-pressley-berlatsky/index.html

- January 2019 Graham Peebles (British freelance writer and charity worker)
“Give Children the Vote, Strengthen Democracy”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/11/give-children-the-vote-strengthen-d
emocracy/

- December 2018 Ilya Somin (Law Professor, George Mason University) “Should
We Let Children Vote? The Troubling Implications of Standard Reasons for
Rejecting a Flawed Idea”
https://reason.com/volokh/2018/12/07/should-we-let-children-vote-the-troubli
n

- December 2018 David Runciman (Politics Professor, Cambridge College)
“Lower
voting age to six to tackle bias against young, says academic,” The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/06/give-six-year-olds-the-vote
-says-cambridge-university-academic reporting on this podcast:
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/129-democracy-for-young-p
eople

- March 2018 Ross Douthat, "Power to the Parents"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/parents-teenagers-voti
ng.html

- Oct 2016 Laurence Pevsner, “Let children vote. Even 13-year-olds.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/27/let-childrenvote-even-13-year-olds/

- Nov 2015 Matthew Yglesias (co-founded Vox.com) “The case for letting
children vote”
https://www.vox.com/2015/11/28/9770928/voting-rights-for-kids

- Aug 2015 Eric Wiland  “One Citizen, One Vote”
https://whatswrongcvsp.com/2015/08/12/one-citizen-one-vote/

- Dec 2015 Noah Berlatsky, "Give Kids the Vote! The Case for Children's
Suffrage"
https://psmag.com/news/my-son-would-put-in-a-negative-vote-for-trump

- Nov 2013 Alexei Bayer (Russian economist and writer) “The US Economy is
Stuck in the Past”
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2013/11/25/the-u-s-economy-is-stuck-in-the-pas
t/

- May 2013 Miles Corak (Canadian economist) TED Talk “Citizenship as a
Privilege
or as a Right: Should Children be Given the Vote?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anYFFlOtZKo transcript:
https://milescorak.com/2013/03/28/citizenship-as-a-privilege-or-as-a-right-sho
uld-children-be-given-the-vote/

- March 2013 Chrystia Freeland (Canada, journalist, author, minister of
foreign
affairs) "Giving the Young a Bigger Say"
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/world/americas/08iht-letter08.html

- April 2012 Joshua Gans (Australian in Canada, Economics professor) "Why
It's
Time To Give Children The Right To Vote"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuagans/2012/04/20/its-time-to-give-childre
n-the-vote/

- Jan 2011 Reiko Aoki (Japan and NZ, prof of economics) “Should Parents
Vote for
Kids?” https://thediplomat.com/2011/01/should-parents-vote-for-kids/

- Oct 2010 Alex Koroknay-Palicz & Keith Mandell (National Youth Rights
Association, USA) “Top 10 Reasons to Lower the Voting Age”
https://firstfocus.org/resources/report/top-10-reasons-to-lower-the-voting-age

- Jan 2005 "Supreme Court rejects challenge on voting age"
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-on-voting-age/article1112704/

- Feb 2003 "Give babies a vote, says think-tank"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2732203.stm

- Feb 2003 Gillian Thomas and Gina Hocking, "Other People's Children"
http://www.demos.co.uk/files/otherpeopleschildren%282%29.pdf

- 2001 “Should Children Be Allowed To Vote?”
https://australianpolitics.com/2001/04/18/should-children-be-allowed-to-vote
.
html#more-7189

- 1996 Stein Ringen (Norwegian political scientist) “In a Democracy,
Children
Should Get the Vote”
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/14/opinion/IHT-in-a-democracy-children-s
hould-get-the-vote.html

- 1994 Robert Ludbrook (NZ-Australia, lawyer) "Should Children Have the
Right
to Vote?"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13-rigQ-59BqB-PzXzcid44EmeuP3PHs6/view

- Fall 1992 Paul Peterson (US, professor of government and education
reform) "An
Immodest Proposal: Let's give children the vote"
http://www.unz.com/print/BrookingsRev-1993q1-00018/

- Oct 1991 Vita Wallace (16-year-old; home-schooled) “Give Children the
Vote”
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-11400948/give-children-the-vote

For the French-speakers among us,
2005 Jean-Yves Le Naour and Catherine Valenti. La famille doit voter : le
suffrage familial contre le vote individuel. [“The family’s right to vote:
family suffrage versus the individual vote”]
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