Political Participation of Young People in Europe - Development of Indicators for Comparative Research in the European Union (EUYOUPART). Deliverable 5

Autor/inn/en	Zucha, Vlasta; Westphal, Sabine; Picker, Ruth; Taru, Marti
Institution	SORA - Institute for Social Research and Analysis
Titel	Political Participation of Young People in Europe - Development of Indicators for Comparative Research in the European Union (EUYOUPART). Deliverable 5 - report on the meta-analysis. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Politische Partizipation junger Menschen in Europa - Entwicklung von Indikatoren für die vergleichende Forschung in der Europäischen Union. Lieferung 5 - Bericht über die Metaanalyse.
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Beigaben	Tabellen 16; grafische Darstellungen 4
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Fragebogen; Operationalisierung; Verhalten; Partizipation; Politisches Interesse; Protest; Wahlverhalten; Internationaler Vergleich; Indikatorenbildung; Europäische Union; Jugendlicher; Junger Erwachsener; Forschungsprojekt
Abstract	"The purpose of work package 4 was to conduct a secondary analysis of existing surveys on political participation of youth with a focus on study design and survey questions. Specifically, we were interested in looking at how other researchers operationalized political participation and which items proved useful in comparative studies. This information will contribute to the design of the EUYOUPART questionnaire. This report is divided into two main parts: The theoretical part comprises a theoretical framework for political participation behaviours of youth. It replicates briefly main theories of democracy and summarizes how political participation has been defined so far. The theoretical part concludes with a working definition of 'political participation' for EUYOUPART that should help guide the selection of foreground and background variables for the questionnaire (chapter 1). The empirical part of this report focuses on secondary data analyses of national and international studies on political participation of youth. Whereas there is a considerable amount of youth studies and of studies on political participation, there are very few studies that combine both elements: The number of studies on political participation of youth is limited, even more so on the international comparative level. Chapter 2 thus summarizes results of national data analyses conducted by the consortium members. It looks at studies on politics & youth on the national level and compares results where (near-) identical questions were used. The search for international studies that contain questions on political participation behaviour as well as a big enough youth sample yielded only a few studies fulfilling both conditions. The most promising research projects in this regard are the European Social Survey (ESS) and the study Citizenship, Identity and Democracy (CID). Since the data of the latter have not been released at the time of our work on WP4, we decided to focus on a secondary analysis of ESS questions (the ESS fortunately includes many items on political participation that originate from the CID). Therefore, chapter 3 discusses comparability and equivalence of a selected range of ESS variables and yields a comparison of political participation behaviour with a focus on effects of gender, age and occupational status. In chapter 4, we look at other international research projects that contain a reasonable number of questions on political participation behaviour. The secondary analysis focuses on comparative results on political interest, voting behaviour and civil protest across several international studies. Based on these analyses, chapter 5 summarizes conclusions and implications for the EUYOUPART questionnaire development." (excerpt).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2006/3