Young People's Political Participation: New and Old Forms in Contemporary Spain

<span class="abs_content">This article is related to the literature concerning the decline of traditional forms of political participation in young people. It seeks to understand younger Spaniards' attitudes towards active participation in democratic processes and, more specific...

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Main Author:	Francisco Javier Alarcón González
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Language:	EN
Published:	Coordinamento SIBA 2021
Subjects:	young people political participation civic voluntarism model cognitive engagement model social capital model spain Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e8942ea562df48f4868f9f506baf8a632021-11-21T15:11:42ZYoung People's Political Participation: New and Old Forms in Contemporary Spain1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v14i2p914https://doaj.org/article/e8942ea562df48f4868f9f506baf8a632021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/24265https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">This article is related to the literature concerning the decline of traditional forms of political participation in young people. It seeks to understand younger Spaniards' attitudes towards active participation in democratic processes and, more specifically, differences between those young people engaged in citizen-oriented political actions related to political parties and those engaged in cause-oriented activities. The main goal of this paper is to explain the relationship between young people and politics, focusing on three types of comparisons: (i) between young people, adults and seniors, (ii) in both kinds of actions, and (iii) across three theoretical models that scholars have been used indiscriminately to testing different models explaining why people became active in politics, each of them influenced by different political science research traditions. Data show a great disparity in the explanatory power of independent variables among age groups. A better performance of civic volutantism model and also in cause-oriented participation.</span><br />Francisco Javier Alarcón GonzálezCoordinamento SIBAarticleyoung peoplepolitical participationcivic voluntarism modelcognitive engagement modelsocial capital modelspainPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 914-932 (2021)
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description	<span class="abs_content">This article is related to the literature concerning the decline of traditional forms of political participation in young people. It seeks to understand younger Spaniards' attitudes towards active participation in democratic processes and, more specifically, differences between those young people engaged in citizen-oriented political actions related to political parties and those engaged in cause-oriented activities. The main goal of this paper is to explain the relationship between young people and politics, focusing on three types of comparisons: (i) between young people, adults and seniors, (ii) in both kinds of actions, and (iii) across three theoretical models that scholars have been used indiscriminately to testing different models explaining why people became active in politics, each of them influenced by different political science research traditions. Data show a great disparity in the explanatory power of independent variables among age groups. A better performance of civic volutantism model and also in cause-oriented participation.</span><br />
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title	Young People's Political Participation: New and Old Forms in Contemporary Spain
title_short	Young People's Political Participation: New and Old Forms in Contemporary Spain
title_full	Young People's Political Participation: New and Old Forms in Contemporary Spain
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Young People's Political Participation: New and Old Forms in Contemporary Spain

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