Children and democracy: Theory and policy

Politics, Philosophy & Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 365-379

  Schrag, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

children; democracy; justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748289891     PISSN: 1470594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470594X04046248     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Robert A. Dahl, On Democracy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), p. 79, emphasis added.
2. Joshua Cohen, ‘Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy’, in Deliberative Democracy, edited by James Bohman and William Rehg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997), p. 67.
3. Charles R. Beitz, Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), pp. 16–19.
4. See Beitz, Political Equality, Ch. 2; David Copp, ‘Could the Truth be a Hazard for Democracy?’ in The Idea of Democracy, edited by David Copp, Jean Hampton and John E. Roemer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 101–17; John Ferejohn, ‘Must Preferences be Respected in a Democracy?’ in The Idea of Democracy, pp. 231–44; Ross Harrison, Democracy (London: Routledge, 1993), Ch. 6; John Stuart Mill, ‘Considerations on Representative Government’, in On Liberty and Representative Government, edited by R.B. McCallum (Oxford: Blackwell, 1947), pp. 109–324; Michael Munger, ‘Voting’, in The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, edited by William F. Shughart II and Laura Razzolini (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001), pp. 197–239.
5. See G. Graham, ‘The Moral Basis of Democracy’, International Journal of Moral and Social Studies 7 (1992): 91-102.
6. Mill, ‘Considerations on Representative Government’, pp. 142–3.
7. David Estlund, ‘Making Truth Safe for Democracy’, in The Idea of Democracy, p. 84.
8. David Estlund, personal communication, December 2003.
9. The only other explicit treatment of the status of children in democratic theory that I am aware of is my own. See Francis Schrag, ‘The Child's Status in the Democratic State’, Political Theory 3 (November 1975): 441-57.
10. Thomas Christiano, ‘Knowledge and Power in the Justification of Democracy’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (June 2001): 207.
11. Harry Brighouse, School Choice and Social Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 42–3. Brighouse assumes that compulsory schooling of a conventional academic kind meets this requirement, but I would challenge that.
12. James W. Button, ‘A Sign of Generational Conflict: The Impact of Florida's Aging Voters on Local School and Tax Referenda’, Social Science Quarterly 73 (December 1992): 795, original emphasis.
13. Paul E. Peterson, ‘An Immodest Proposal’, Daedalus 121 (fall 1992): 158.
14. Philippe van Parijs, ‘The Disfranchisement of the Elderly, and Other Attempts to Secure Intergenerational Justice’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 27 (1999): 292-333. Especially in western Europe, the issue of the elderly outvoting the young has been recognized as a problem.
15. See M.G. Flekkøy, A Voice for Children: Speaking Out as Their Ombudsman (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1991).