﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Felon Voting Rights and Democracy

Gould, Rebecca

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Felon Voting Rights and Democracy

Rebecca Gould

Yale-NUS College; University of Iowa

October 12, 2010

Open Democracy, July 2010

Abstract:
This editorial - one of many ongoing works on the politics of incarceration - examines the incompatibility between discriminatory US felon disenfranchisement laws and the democratic ideals the prison system claims to endorse.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 5

Keywords: felon disenfranchisement, democracy, prisons, citizenship

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Date posted: October 13, 2010 ; Last revised: May 15, 2011

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Gould, Rebecca, Felon Voting Rights and Democracy (October 12, 2010). Open Democracy, July 2010 . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1691181

Contact Information

Rebecca Gould (Contact Author) Yale-NUS College ( email ) Singapore HOME PAGE: http://works.bepress.com/r_gould/cv.pdf
University of Iowa Department of Asian & Slavic Langs & Literatures United States