Voting Rights (Opposing Viewpoints) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0737740140 ISBN 13: 9780737740141

Publisher: Greenhaven, 2008

Synopsis

Essays present differing views on issues related to the rights of voters, such as mandatory voting and the expansion of global voting rights.

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Should immigrants, expatriates, convicts, and minors be allowed to vote? Can e-voting benefit the voting process? This up-to-date title in the fine Opposing Viewpoints series discusses current issues in the U.S. now, and also looks at politics in many other countries: women’s right to vote in the Arab world and parts of Latin America, the rulings of South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitutional Court, and more. The international perspective will stimulate debate about elemental issues of democracy, including the trade-off between liberty and participation, and discrimination by gender and race. As always with this series, writers and politicians from many sides present their arguments and open up questions on a wide range of topics. For each article, a clear introduction discusses the issues raised, and the book includes an extensive bibliography of books, periodicals, and organizations to contact. Teens will be especially drawn by the question of whether the voting age should be lowered to 16. Grades 7-12. --Hazel Rochman

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenhaven
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0737740140
• ISBN 13: 9780737740141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Lansford Tom