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Political Participation and Voting Rights

The history of democracies has been marked by the struggle to expand voting rights. Many groups, including women, only gained the right to vote in the last century, and continue to be underrepresented in political office. Political Participation and Voting Rights, one of the titles in the Foundations of Democracy series, discusses how a government of the people requires its citizens to provide regular input on policies and decisions through consultations and voting.