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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Children's Suffrage Studies -- The Intellectual Context -- The Conversation Today -- The Present Volume -- References -- Part I: Theoretical Frameworks -- Chapter 2: Silence Is Poison: Explaining and Curing Adult "Apathy" -- The Germ -- Metastasis -- Training for Incompetence -- Institutional Adultism -- The Cure -- The Small Picture: Empowered Individuals -- The Medium Picture: Effective Group Activism -- The Big Picture: Robust Democracy with a Strong Civil Society -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: How Low Can You Go? The Capacity to Vote Among Young Citizens -- Introduction -- Step 1: Lowering the Voting Age -- Austria -- Why Not Abandon Age Limits? -- The Question of Incapacity -- The Question of Capacity -- Abandoning the Voting Age -- The Benefits of Universal Enfranchisement -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Case for Children's Voting -- Learning from History -- Deconstructing Voting Competence -- Reconstructing Democratic Societies -- Reimagining Democratic Theory -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Historical Contexts -- Chapter 5: The Enfranchisement of Women Versus the Enfranchisement of Children -- Introduction -- They Are Not Competent -- They Don't Want It -- They Don't Need It -- They Are Better Off Without It -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: De-Colonizing Children's Suffrage: Engagements with Dr B R Ambedkar's Ideas on Democracy -- Brief Sketch About Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar -- What Is a Democracy? -- Who Is a Minority? Who Should be Allowed to Vote? -- Applying Ambedkar's Ideas to Children -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Reform that Never Happened: A History of Children's Suffrage Restrictions -- Introduction -- Background -- Historicising Suffrage Reforms.

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