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Voting Rights for Non-citizens: Treasure or Fool’s Gold?

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  • Avigail Eisenberg

    (University of Victoria)

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Proposals to extend the franchise to non-citizens have recently been defended on the basis of principles of democratic inclusion that challenge the sovereign authority of states to decide who may participate as a member in the democratic constituency. Here the requirement of extending the franchise to non-citizens is considered in the context of municipalities dominated by national minorities and in light of the claims of national minorities to self-rule. In these contexts, the settlement and enfranchisement of migrants sometimes dilute the strength and increase the costs of minority nationalist policies. The political dynamics created by extending voting rights to non-citizens where national minorities struggle for self-rule illuminate that moral arguments for extending voting rights to non-citizens can confuse two issues, the first being who has the right to participate in shaping the common projects of a democratic community and the second being whose interests should be considered in the course of decision making by that community. In these contexts, non-citizens have the right to have their interests considered and to have their rights taken seriously, but they may not have a strong claim to participate as voters in community decision making.

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  • Avigail Eisenberg, 2015. "Voting Rights for Non-citizens: Treasure or Fool’s Gold?," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 133-151, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:joimai:v:16:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1007_s12134-014-0331-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s12134-014-0331-y
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