Why Voting Rights Matter: A conceptual Framework

Article Article scientifique Article Why Voting Rights Matter: A conceptual Framework eng 2024 author Ceva Emanuela 0000-0002-4422-7667 927123 Service enseignement, recherche, administratif et technique (SdS) (SCSPS) author Mazzola Dario 855929 Département de science politique et relations internationales (SdS) (SPERI) 61-82 10.3167/dt.2025.120104 2332-8894 <p>The article examines the meaning of migrant’s (dis)enfranchisement within democratic polities, focusing on ideas of political authority and agency derived from democratic theory. Building on the notion that democratic voting represents a mutual and second-personal exercise of authority, the paper argues that the disenfranchisement of migrants signifies their exclusion from agential authoritative relationships in politics, and ultimately, from a quintessential democratic mode of political agency. We recall some of the principles for expanding voting rights from the literature and acknowledge that there may be reasons in favor of exclusion. However, we highlight how any such exclusion (re)shapes the political relationships performed through the practice of voting. While we rebut the challenge of “voting fetishism,” we conclude by discussing how alternative forms of political participation for migrants, though important, cannot compensate for the unique impoverishment of political authority and agency that disenfranchisement specifically incurs</p> Dewey 320 121 Département de science politique et relations internationales T3 189 Institut d'études de la citoyenneté T9 false 63 Acquisition et expression de facteurs de virulence chez Staphylococcus aureus 86 Democratic theory 12 1 426e8dca-f086-4588-bfb6-50e2ddd28c01 Article (Accepted version) Private file.pdf 319648 application/pdf ede2e2c0a5c49b55c4aafd5ac33caeb0492be4096201c7df1d71c0ff71c0c3aa closedAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de science politique et relations internationales Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut d'études de la citoyenneté

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