Deliberators, not Future Citizens: Children in Democracy

This paper is a “manifesto” for incorporating children into deliberative democracy. Although the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) emphasizes children’s right to participation in the process of democracy, their activities and voices still do not receive the attention they m...

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Published in:	Journal of Deliberative Democracy
Main Author:	Kei Nishiyama
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Westminster Press 2017-04-01
Subjects:	Deliberative System Deliberators Children as Citizens Future Citizens Children
Online Access:	https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/539/

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