Giolitti The law of 1912 gave voting rights to all citizens adult males able to read and write. In 1919 this law was amended by extending the right to vote to all male citizens, including illiterate.
This "explosion of democracy in a country where 35% of the population was illiterate, emphasis was placed on one of the problems inherent the concept of universal suffrage: the parallels between literacy / education and the right to vote, a population ignorant can not have the political awareness necessary to express a preference in the election.
The increase in schooling would have in the meantime, at least in part, solved the problem, but you would not think, given that in 2005 showed that 12% of Italians were illiterate and only 33% of the population owned a title study than the middle school.
would then be asked with knowledge of the facts that should be part of the Italian electorate to vote, but the question is essentially rhetorical ...
The other problem inherent in the concept of universal suffrage is purely numerical.
the late 50 Aldous Huxley in his Brave New World Revisited, reflected on how demography and democracy go in the opposite direction. Population growth is likely to appear insignificant to the individual voter's vote, with the risk of creating such a series of distortions, first of all (but not only) one of abstention.
The concept of democracy as understood today, more or less born with the Enlightenment, as a counter to the absolute monarchies. Missing the second, the natural counterpart of representative democracy became the totalitarian regimes of any color or religion.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, has made us not only witnessed the end of a totalitarian regime but also a system of thought. The fact that in the meantime, representative democracy has survived not necessarily mean that it represents a better model of what has replaced. In the end it may just be a carcass left to rot in a basement, was seen as too distant in time and other than ours are to adapt without any problems.
Without going too far, just look at Italy. It really makes sense
universal suffrage in a country increasingly old, in which some citizens more colorful excuses to justify its abstention, and in which information is often taken in passive?
Far from the solutions, but there are a couple of questions on which I find myself thinking more and more often.
It makes sense to grant the right to vote for a person who, having passed the age of eighty, has become a large part of his life behind?
It makes sense to grant the right to vote to an abstention that methodically unrepentant shall refrain from any calls to the polls?
would not in fact the case starting to cut some dead branch?
answer honestly I have not, otherwise I would not be here.
It seems to me obvious that in addition to reaffirming the absolute necessity to impose a real literacy that goes beyond the mere winning of a diploma, would also be the case that we start to reflect on the meaning of "entitled."
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This "explosion of democracy in a country where 35% of the population was illiterate, emphasis was placed on one of the problems inherent the concept of universal suffrage: the parallels between literacy / education and the right to vote, a population ignorant can not have the political awareness necessary to express a preference in the election.
The increase in schooling would have in the meantime, at least in part, solved the problem, but you would not think, given that in 2005 showed that 12% of Italians were illiterate and only 33% of the population owned a title study than the middle school.
would then be asked with knowledge of the facts that should be part of the Italian electorate to vote, but the question is essentially rhetorical ...
The other problem inherent in the concept of universal suffrage is purely numerical.
the late 50 Aldous Huxley in his Brave New World Revisited, reflected on how demography and democracy go in the opposite direction. Population growth is likely to appear insignificant to the individual voter's vote, with the risk of creating such a series of distortions, first of all (but not only) one of abstention.
The concept of democracy as understood today, more or less born with the Enlightenment, as a counter to the absolute monarchies. Missing the second, the natural counterpart of representative democracy became the totalitarian regimes of any color or religion.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, has made us not only witnessed the end of a totalitarian regime but also a system of thought. The fact that in the meantime, representative democracy has survived not necessarily mean that it represents a better model of what has replaced. In the end it may just be a carcass left to rot in a basement, was seen as too distant in time and other than ours are to adapt without any problems.
Without going too far, just look at Italy. It really makes sense
universal suffrage in a country increasingly old, in which some citizens more colorful excuses to justify its abstention, and in which information is often taken in passive?
Far from the solutions, but there are a couple of questions on which I find myself thinking more and more often.
It makes sense to grant the right to vote for a person who, having passed the age of eighty, has become a large part of his life behind?
It makes sense to grant the right to vote to an abstention that methodically unrepentant shall refrain from any calls to the polls?
would not in fact the case starting to cut some dead branch?
answer honestly I have not, otherwise I would not be here.
It seems to me obvious that in addition to reaffirming the absolute necessity to impose a real literacy that goes beyond the mere winning of a diploma, would also be the case that we start to reflect on the meaning of "entitled."
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