57 research outputs found
Changes in late adolescentsâ voting intentions during the election campaign: Disentangling the effects of political communication with parents, peers and media
This article investigates the effects of political discussions with parents, political discussions with peers and exposure to political news during an election campaign on the voting intentions and behaviour of first-time voters. Longitudinal data collected in the Czech Republic are employed in the main analysis (N=223). Results show that young people who frequently discuss politics with their peers are characterized by higher voting intentions and subsequent electoral participation. On the other hand, political discussions with parents and exposure to political news have no such effects. Furthermore, although it does not have an impact on voting intentions, more frequent political discussions with parents predict increased frequency of political discussions with peers. Overall, our results underscore the importance of peers in late adolescents' political socialization
A vidĂ©ki tĂĄj hasznĂĄlatĂĄban bekövetkezett vĂĄltozĂĄsok tĂĄrsadalmi reakciĂłk tĂŒkrĂ©ben
KutatĂĄsunk alapvetĆ cĂ©lja a hazai vidĂ©ki tĂĄj hasznĂĄlatĂĄban bekövetkezett vĂĄltozĂĄsok vizsgĂĄlata, valamint az ezzel kapcsolatos tĂĄrsadalmi reakciĂłk feltĂĄrĂĄsa. Ennek sorĂĄn azt kĂvĂĄnjuk elsĆsorban megvizsgĂĄlni a KiskunsĂĄgi Nemzeti Park pĂ©ldĂĄjĂĄn, hogy a tĂĄj kezelĂ©se sorĂĄn milyen mĂłdon Ă©s eszközökkel törekedtek a korĂĄbbi mezĆgazdasĂĄgi mƱvelĂ©s terĂŒleteinek mƱvelĂ©si ĂĄg vĂĄltĂĄsĂĄra, Ă©s a termĂ©szetközeli ĂĄllapotok visszaĂĄllĂtĂĄsĂĄra, illetve e folyamatban milyen eredmĂ©nyeket Ă©rtek el. A tĂ©ma idĆszerƱsĂ©gĂ©t az is jelzi, hogy az elmĂșlt Ă©v vĂ©gĂ©n a vĂ©dett terĂŒletek kb. 20 %-ĂĄt a Nemzeti Földalap kezelĂ©sĂ©be adta az ĂĄllam, tehĂĄt sorsuk a termĂ©szetvĂ©delem szempontjĂĄbĂłl Ășjra bizonytalannĂĄ vĂĄlhat
Toward a New Social Contract? The Participation of Civil Society in Swedish Welfare Policymaking, 1958â2012
Citizenshipâs tangled web: Associations, gaps and tensions in formulations of European youth active citizenship across disciplines
How does academic literature across various disciplines conceptualize and empirically address active citizenship? What are the potential benefits and dangers of dominant epistemological and ideological perspectives on âgood citizenshipâ? Our paper engages with these questions by drawing on literature across 12 disciplines. We used textual analysis software T-LAB to quantify and visualize co-occurrences, word associations and thematic clusters in the abstracts of 770 texts gathered by eight country teams and original in-depth qualitative analyses of ideological positions and discourses taken up in a selection of key texts across the corpus. Our paper elaborates the findings: that many of the key themes surrounding young people and citizenship in the literature share little or no connection with European citizenship; that there is a significant gap in the literature on young European citizens; and that studies connected to internal, status-based factors connected to citizenship are far more prevalent than those examining external, practice-based factors or dissidence and dissent. Our conclusions examine the potential normative implications of the disjuncture between dominant conceptions and critical accounts of youth active citizenship. © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Adolescentsâ Patterns of Citizenship Orientations and Correlated Contextual Variables: Results From a Two-Wave Study in Five European Countries
Studies on youth participation tend to characterize youth as either active and trustful or as passive and alienated. This cross-national and longitudinal study examines patterns of citizenship orientations characterized by both manifest and latent involvement differentiated by oneâs position toward institutional politics (trustful or distrustful) among 1,914 adolescents from five European countries (53.5% female; Mage = 16.27). Demographic and proximal contextual correlates associated with different orientations at a 1-year interval were also assessed. Latent profile analysis identified four groups of citizenship orientations among adolescents: engaged trustful, engaged distrustful, unengaged trustful, and unengaged distrustful. Differences of membership likelihood were found for background characteristics (gender and family income), school characteristics (track, democratic climate, student participation, and its perceived quality), family, and peer norms of participation. © The Author(s) 2020
âItâs Only a Pastime, Reallyâ: Young Peopleâs Experiences of Social Media as a Source of News about Public Affairs
Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries
Political participation is one of the most studied aspects of the contemporary development of western democracies. A recent trend focuses the lack of political participation among younger generations. At the same time, the last decades have also witnessed a growth in the share of young European Union (EU) citizens who express alienation, and distrust toward social and political institutions at the national as well as the European level. By studying young people across different countries of the EU, the current study aims to examine if youthsâ political passivity is better explained by political apathy or alienation. Our analyses are based on a comparative survey data collected by the Catch-EyoU project comprising approximately 4 454 late adolescents assembled from eight member countries of the EU. Results from logistic regressions predicting non-voting from apathy and alienation support the idea that political passivity is best understood as the result of political apathy. Moreover, it seems that the underlying separator of apathetic and alienated youths is cognitive awareness of political life. These results are discussed in relation to potentially built-in paradoxes of apathy present in efficient and well-functional welfare-state democracies. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Is love politically blind? The role that the romantic partner plays for young adultsâ socio-political interest
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