The United Kingdom has just announced that it will be lowering the voting age to 16 for all future elections. But the UK is not the first country to make these voting reforms, with several countries in Europe and Latin America already allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote, either nationally or regionally. Social scientist Christine Huebner, has spent years researching youth voting, and her conclusion is - lowering the voting age does not have any negative side effects for democracy. 

Guest: Christine Huebner, Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield