caa a22 4500 605454981 CHVBK 20210128100210.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10602-015-9190-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10602-015-9190-6 Votes on behalf of children: a legitimate way of giving them a voice in politics? [Elektronische Daten] [Stephan Wolf, Nils Goldschmidt, Thomas Petersen] This article argues that the widely accepted principle of universal suffrage actually implies endowing children with voting power. The fact that children lack political maturity does not necessarily lead us to the conclusion that they should not have the right to vote. Parents, at least in principle, can act as their electoral custodians. The idea of letting parents vote on behalf of their children, however, raises one important question: are parents in fact able to make a genuine voting decision for their children, independently from their own decision, or will children's suffrage just lead to a multiplication of parental choices? Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Children's suffrage nationallicence Universal suffrage nationallicence ‘One person, one vote' nationallicence Constitutional economics nationallicence Wolf Stephan Chair of Environmental Economics and Resource Management, University of Freiburg, 79085, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany aut Goldschmidt Nils Center for Economic Education, University of Siegen, 57068, Siegen, Germany aut Petersen Thomas Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research, 78476, Allensbach, Germany aut Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/3(2015-09-01), 356-374 1043-4062 26:3<356 2015 26 10602 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-015-9190-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-015-9190-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wolf Stephan Chair of Environmental Economics and Resource Management, University of Freiburg, 79085, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goldschmidt Nils Center for Economic Education, University of Siegen, 57068, Siegen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Petersen Thomas Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research, 78476, Allensbach, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/3(2015-09-01), 356-374 1043-4062 26:3<356 2015 26 10602