Japan's Agenda Setting to Lower the Voting Age from 20 to 18: Prioritizing Constitutional Revision over Democratic Legitimacy

What age a state designates as appropriate for voting rights raises a range of democratic and empirical issues. The lowering of the voting age in Japan in 2015 was the biggest expansion of the country’s democratic franchise since 1945, yet it happened in an abrupt manner. Lowering the voting age was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takao, Yasuo
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2019
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Online Access:https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76651