The intention of this article is to contribute to the debate about whether the voting age should
be lowered to the age of 16, by examining quantitative and qualitative data collected in a …

Research into the possible consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 used to be rather
speculative in nature, as there were few countries that had implemented earlier …

The UK is now a multi-level polity with asymmetrical minimum ages of enfranchisement. The
franchise was first extended to 16-and 17-year-olds in the 2014 Scottish independence …

The debate in the United Kingdom over whether the voting age should be lowered to 16 has
largely involved political elites demanding change. Public opinion, insofar as it has been …

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 …

Thirty years on from the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the international norm for the
age of political majority remains set at 18 years of age. With few exceptions, those under 18 …

In 1969, the UK became the first country to lower its age of franchise to 18. Most other
democracies soon followed. This article provides the first detailed examination of the …

The debate over reform to the voting age at Westminster elections is dominated by a concept
of young people as deficient and disengaged citizens. In the contemporary context of young …

Švýcarska 1991 a Maroka 2002 se zabývá vlivem snížení hranice aktivního volebního práva
na zájem o politiku v případech Švýcarska a Maroka. Navazuje tak na dosavadní výzkum v …