Editors:
- Considers forms of political participation beyond traditional modes such as voting and joining political parties
- Analyses data from a survey undertaken in nine European countries to examine inequalities in these areas
- Expands on existing knowledge about factors and trends that impact youth political participation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics (PSYPP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Socialization and Youth Political Participation
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Modes of Youth Participation
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The Mobilization of Youth Politics
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About this book
"This volume is an indispensable guide to understanding young European’s experience and engagement of politics, the inequalities that shape young people’s political engagement and are sometimes replicated through them, and young people’s commitment to saving the environment and spreading democratic ideals. Based on compelling and extensive research across nine nations, this volume makes important advances in key debates on youth politics and provides critical empirical insights into which young people engage, influences on young people’s politics, how young people engage, why some young people don’t engage, and trends across nations. The volume succeeds in the herculean task of focusing on specific national contexts while also rendering a comprehensive picture of youth politics and inequality in Europe today."
—Jennifer Earl, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USA
"Forecasts by social scientists of young people’s increasingly apathetic stance towards political participation appear to have been misplaced. This text, drawing data and analysis across and between nine European countries, captures the changing nature of political ‘activism’ by young people. It indicates how this is strongly nuanced by factors such as social class and gender identity. It also highlights important distinctions between young people’s approaches towards more traditional (electoral) and more contemporary (non-institutional) forms of participation. Critically, it illuminates the many ways in which youth political participation has evolved and transformed in recent years. Wider social circumstances and experiences are identified as highly significant in preparing young people for, and influencing their levels of participation in, both protest-oriented action and electoral politics."
—Howard Williamson, Professor of European Youth Policy, University of South Wales, UK
"This book is an incredible guide to understanding the role and sources of inequalities on young people’s political involvement. Country specific chapters allow the authors to integrate a large number of the key and most pressing issues regarding young people’s relationship to politics in a single volume. Topics range from social mobility and the influence of socioeconomic (parental) resources and class; young people’s practice in the social sphere; the intersection of gender with other sources of inequalities; online participation and its relationship with social inequalities; the impact of harsh economic conditions; the mobilization potential of the environmental cause; to the role of political organizations. Integrating all these pressing dimensions in a common framework and accompanying it with extensive novel empirical evidence is a great achievement and the result is a must read piece for researchers and practitioners aiming to understand the challenges young people face in developing their relationship to politics."
—Gema GarcÃa-Albacete, Associate Professor of Political Science, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Reviews
"This volume is an indispensable guide to understanding young European’s experience and engagement of politics, the inequalities that shape young people’s political engagement and are sometimes replicated through them, and young people’s commitment to saving the environment and spreading democratic ideals. Based on compelling and extensive research across nine nations, this volume makes important advances in key debates on youth politics and provides critical empirical insights into which young people engage, influences on young people’s politics, how young people engage, why some young people don’t engage, and trends across nations. The volume succeeds in the herculean task of focusing on specific national contexts while also rendering a comprehensive picture of youth politics and inequality in Europe today."
—Jennifer Earl, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USA
"Forecasts by social scientists of young people’s increasingly apathetic stance towards political participation appear to have been misplaced. This text, drawing data and analysis across and between nine European countries, captures the changing nature of political ‘activism’ by young people. It indicates how this is strongly nuanced by factors such as social class and gender identity. It also highlights important distinctions between young people’s approaches towards more traditional (electoral) and more contemporary (non-institutional) forms of participation. Critically, it illuminates the many ways in which youth political participation has evolved and transformed in recent years. Wider social circumstances and experiences are identified as highly significant in preparing young people for, and influencing their levels of participation in, both protest-oriented action and electoral politics."
—Howard Williamson, Professor of European Youth Policy, University of South Wales, UK
"This book is an incredible guide to understanding the role and sources of inequalities on young people’s political involvement. Country specific chapters allow the authors to integrate a large number of the key and most pressing issues regarding young people’s relationship to politics in a single volume. Topics range from social mobility and the influence of socioeconomic (parental) resources and class; young people’s practice in the social sphere; the intersection of gender with other sources of inequalities; online participation and its relationship with social inequalities; the impact of harsh economic conditions; the mobilization potential of the environmental cause; to the role of political organizations. Integrating all these pressing dimensions in a common framework and accompanying it with extensive novel empirical evidence is a great achievement and the result is a must read piece for researchers and practitioners aiming to understand the challenges young people face in developing their relationship to politics."
—Gema GarcÃa-Albacete, Associate Professor of Political Science, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Marco Giugni
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School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Maria Grasso
About the editors
Marco Giugni is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite), University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Maria Grasso is Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities
Editors: Marco Giugni, Maria Grasso
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63676-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63675-3Published: 24 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63678-4Published: 25 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63676-0Published: 22 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-501X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 262
Topics: European Politics, Political Sociology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Personality and Social Psychology, Human Geography