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TY - CHAP
T1 - Understanding the Policy Drivers and Effects of Voting Age Reform
AU - Mycock, Andrew
AU - Loughran, Thomas
AU - Tonge, Jonathan
PY - 2020/1/6
Y1 - 2020/1/6
N2 - A common feature of debates about lowering the voting age to 16 has been an absence of analytical research which might explain the historical or contemporary policy drivers for voting age reform or its potential effects. The following chapter provides the first such attempt to fill this gap in the literature, establishing and then applying a thematic analytical framework to explain the drivers of voting age reform. It advances a thesis which argues that there are at least four thematic models that we can apply to enhance our understanding of the policy origins, justifications, and impacts for reforming the age of enfranchisement. The chapter applies these models to understand policy drivers informing voting age reform in the UK over the past 50 years or so. The chapter concludes that contemporary voting age reform draws on the same policy drivers but that they differ from previous reductions of the age of enfranchisement in their context and importance.
AB - A common feature of debates about lowering the voting age to 16 has been an absence of analytical research which might explain the historical or contemporary policy drivers for voting age reform or its potential effects. The following chapter provides the first such attempt to fill this gap in the literature, establishing and then applying a thematic analytical framework to explain the drivers of voting age reform. It advances a thesis which argues that there are at least four thematic models that we can apply to enhance our understanding of the policy origins, justifications, and impacts for reforming the age of enfranchisement. The chapter applies these models to understand policy drivers informing voting age reform in the UK over the past 50 years or so. The chapter concludes that contemporary voting age reform draws on the same policy drivers but that they differ from previous reductions of the age of enfranchisement in their context and importance.
UR - https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/f64fce9d-a8a0-4ea0-bcfb-bf744ec95f8e
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-32541-1_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-32541-1_3
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030325411
SN - 9783030325404
BT - Lowering the Voting Age to 16
ER -