Civic competence, older children and the right to vote

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • D.J. de Ruyter
  • S. Miedema
Book title Moral education and development: a lifetime commitment
ISBN
  • 9789460917158
Pages (from-to) 223-236
Publisher Rotterdam [etc.]: Sense Publishers
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Research Institute of Child Development and Education (RICDE)
Abstract Political liberals routinely defend, on the one hand, the importance of individual conscience, freedom of expression and the right to self determination. On the other hand they insist upon the necessity of shared political principles that provide the basis for social cooperation. It is a familiar tension in political theory, and scholars disagree about the scope and content, not to mention the ranking, of these goods. Accordingly, the tensions that arise between them provide the impetus for an ongoing, and sometimes contentious, debate.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-716-5_16
Permalink to this page
Back