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08 June, 2017

Basic Income

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Abstract The idea that states should provide a means-tested guaranteed minimum income for citizens who are unable to meet their basic needs is widely shared and

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19 March, 2021

Sequences of democracy and development

USAID Center for Democracy and Governance & NORC at the University of Chicago, September 2020. AbstractScholars have long studied the correlation between democracy and development; yet, there is no

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Lindberg, Staffan, Mechkova, Valeriya & Berker Kavasoglu
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17 August, 2018

Children and the right to vote

In: Gheaus, Anca, Calder, Gideon, and De Wispelaere, Jurgen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Milton: Routledge. Introduction The history of democracy is stronglySixty years ago, no European democracy allowed 18-year-olds to vote; today, no European nation denies people aged 18 the vote. The tendency is to lower the age of voting further. Voting from the age of 16 is now allowed in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. The general question raised by these developments concerns what the final destination should be: what is the appropriate voting-rights age in a democracy?

Type of publication: Chapters | Beckman, Ludvig
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21 March, 2022

Julia Cage: Rethinking Democracy - Steps to Political Equality and Social and Environmental Justice

Research seminar with Julia Cage, Associate Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris Register Abstract Electoral democracies are in crisis. Turnout is at its lowest point in the history of universal sufand argue that the solution involves a radical rethinking of our system of political finance, participation and representation.

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