Preface: Teach Your Parents Well
Introduction: The Death and Life of Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 1 Children’s Right to Utopia and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Chapter 2 The Construction of Childhood in Political Philosophy, History, and Culture
Chapter 3 Youth as Scientists, Innovators, and Leaders
Chapter 4 The Bane of Ma/Paternalism
Chapter 5 The Boon of Ma/Paternalism
Chapter 6 Children’s Political Beliefs
Chapter 7 Embers of Empowerment in Contemporary Youth Activism
Chapter 8 Leading Scholarship on Children’s Activism, 1990–2019
Chapter 9 The Logic of Democratic and Aristocratic Theory
Chapter 10 Children to the Rescue at the Polls, in the Streets, in Office
Chapter 11 Many Paths to Empowerment
Conclusion: Youthquake
Bibliography
Index