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Children and democracy: theory and policy

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

This article identifies four approaches to arguing for democracy, showing that none has an adequate way of supporting both full adult inclusion and the exclusion of children. I focus in Section 2 on the arguments of David Estlund and Thomas Christiano, showing that their arguments against guardianship call into question the exclusion of children from the franchise. In Section 3, I explain why the exclusion of children constitutes an injustice, and in the final section, I consider two approaches to remedying that injustice.

Key Words: justice • democracy • children

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 3, No. 3, 365-379 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1470594X04046248


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