Should the voting age be lowered to sixteen? Normative and empirical considerations

Political Studies

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 533-558

  Chan, Tak Wing ^a,c   Clayton, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748314682     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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