Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2017.1404985" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2017.1404985</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2017.1404985" target="_blank" >10.1080/17405629.2017.1404985</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries
Original language description
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 youths’ 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.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Developmental Psychology
ISSN
1740-5629
e-ISSN
1740-5610
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
284-301
UT code for WoS article
000428153300004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85034627407