CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Perisa, Josipa |
|---|---|
| Title | Young People as Voices not Being Heard: Context Influence on Young People's Political (Non-)Participation |
| Summary | The aim of this thesis is to investigate the impact of the politico-economic context on young people’s political participation. It is well known that young people do not participate in politics and therefore are left without being heard by their governments. But it is unknown why in some countries young people participate more than in the others and what induces the differences in participation. This thesis confirms the differences by conducting a logistic regression on twenty two European countries. Further on, this thesis has an aim to investigate possible influencing factor on the differences in young people’s political participation among countries, and conceptualizes the possible context influence around young people’s from school to work transition period of life. Countries’ welfare state institutions intervene in this period by regulating education-labor systems linkage and therefore integrate young people into society in larger or lower extent. In order to assess the influence of context on young people’s participation, one-way ANOVA and linear regression are used. However, the findings suggest that one cannot relate the context directly with the young people’s likelihood of voting. |
| Supervisor | Carsten Q. Schneider |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/perisa_josipa.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University