Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

ISSN

1740-5629

e-ISSN

1740-5610

Svazek periodika

15

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

284-301

Kód UT WoS článku

000428153300004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85034627407