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3 November 2014

The policy few people want remains irresistible: lowering the voting age

Lowering the voting age should have been consigned to the political junkyard, so why is it still gathering momentum?

By Andrew Russell

These are extracts of a chapter from a new book out last week, Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box, edited by Philip Cowley and Robert Ford. The chapter is called “The policy few people want remains irresistible: lowering the voting age” and is written by Andrew Russell.

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