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Engaged and critical? The young generation's political participation in EU countries

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Kiisel, Maie
Seppel, Külliki
Leppik, Marianne

Abstract

Within Europe, there is a clear difference in the strength of political activism between old and new member states. Taking Dalton’s differentiation between old and new types of participation, ‘duty’ and ‘engaged’ citizenship, as a point of departure, the article explores the major predictors for the... view more

Within Europe, there is a clear difference in the strength of political activism between old and new member states. Taking Dalton’s differentiation between old and new types of participation, ‘duty’ and ‘engaged’ citizenship, as a point of departure, the article explores the major predictors for the new, network-based and horizontal political practices among young people. The article uses data from the 2006 and 2012 rounds of the European Social Survey to explore country and age group differences within the EU to seek out structural reasons for the trends in duty and engaged citizenship. The results show that duty citizenship is decreasing and engaged citizenship increasing, but the changes are small and not only among youth. Both types of political participation are related to strong evaluations of the performance of democracy. While there are significant differences in value orientations between adult engaged and duty citizens, these differences are less marked in the case of young people.... view less

Keywords
EU; adolescent; young adult; value-orientation; political activity; comparison; political participation; involvement; conception of democracy

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture

Free Keywords
duty citizenship; engaged citizenship; European Union

Document language
English

Publication Year
2015

Page/Pages
p. 52-66

Journal
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 7 (2015) 3

ISSN
1736-8758

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution


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