Move 1 Examples: Political Sciences close analysis

Move 1 Examples - Political Science - Move 1 analysis

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Political Sciences: Move 1 "Establish A Territory" analysis

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Steps in Move 1

Title: Should the Voting Age be Lowered to Sixteen? Normative and Empirical Considerations
Author(s): Tak Wing Chan and Matthew Clayton
Journal: Political Studies 54?(3).?

Topic generalization: setting a minimum voting age.

1. The questions of whether there should be a minimum voting age and, if so, at what age it should be set, are significant political issues,

1.1. because having the vote is widely recognised as one of the most important legal rights within a democracy.

2. In the absence of some compelling argument, the exclusion of a particular section of the population is standardly taken to be a serious violation of political equality.