Prior Residence and Immigrant Voting Rights

Goppel, Anna (2021). Prior Residence and Immigrant Voting Rights. Moral Philosophy and Politics, 9(2), pp. 323-343. De Gruyter 10.1515/mopp-2020-0004

Full text not available from this repository.

Although the moral foundations of voting rights regulations have been the subject of widespread scrutiny, there is one aspect of the debate which has gone largely unquestioned and is currently accepted in every state’s actual voting rights regulations. This is the requirement of prior residence, which stipulates that immigrants are granted the right to vote only once they have lived in the host country for a certain period of time. It is this requirement I call into question in this paper. Taking up the most plausible justifications for this requirement, I aim to put substantial pressure on its moral acceptability by arguing that it is not directly grounded by any of the principles that are currently defended as a means to determine the demos, nor a proxy for some other morally relevant feature, nor a warrantor for abilities held to be significant for the right to vote.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy
UniBE Contributor:	Goppel, Anna Theresa
Subjects:	100 Philosophy
ISSN:	2194-5616
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Language:	English
Submitter:	Samuel Tscharner
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2022 14:44
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2024 11:46
Publisher DOI:	10.1515/mopp-2020-0004
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/168507