Activating effects of elections : changes in young voters’ political engagement over the course of an election year

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2024.1302686/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2024.1302686/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1302686" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpos.2024.1302686</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Activating effects of elections : changes in young voters’ political engagement over the course of an election year

Original language description

Although the effects of elections and measures of direct democracy on policy outcomes have been well researched, their indirect “educative value” has received less attention, particularly in relation to political engagement of young people. This study examined the activating effect of the national elections in Germany (2009), Czech Republic (2010), and Sweden (2014) on young voters’ political engagement. Young voters (Germany: N = 388; Czech Republic: N = 196, and Sweden: N = 246) were surveyed several months before (T1), shortly after (T2), and several months after (T3) the respective national elections. For all three countries, the results revealed significant increases in political engagement during the election period, followed by significant declines after the election. The post-election declines were smaller compared to the election increases, suggesting a persistence of elections’ activating effects. With the exception of German young adults who were less engaged or first-time voters and showed higher increases in engagement during the election period, there were few interindividual differences. The findings suggest that major political events such as national elections can have activating effects on youth’s political engagement. They support the idea of the socializing value of election participation and of late adolescence and young adulthood as a window of opportunity for reaching young voters during politicized times.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Political Science

ISSN

2673-3145

e-ISSN

2673-3145

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

001223955300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85193492307