The Frontiers of Democracy offers a comprehensive examination of restrictions on the vote in democracies today. For the first time, the reasons for excluding people (prisoners, children, intellectually disabled, non-citizens) from the suffrage in contemporary societies is critically examined from the point of view of democratic theory.

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LUDVIG BECKMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden. He took his PhD at Uppsala University and has since published on genetics and privacy, children's rights, environmental justice, political professionalism and democratic theory.

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Introduction: Universal Suffrage on Trial Democracy and Inclusion Alienated from the Vote: The Case of Non-Citizens Too Young to Vote? Children's Suffrage Jailhouse Vote? Felon Disenfranchisement and Democractic Inclusion Disability, Dependence and Democracy The Vote of Unborn Generations Conclusions: Reasonable Inclusion and Exclusion