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Influencing and understanding political participation patterns of young people

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Political participation is at the heart of every functioning democracy as it about active involvement of citizens engaged in the formulation, passage and implementation of public policies. Precisely due to this reason many are concerned about the shape of democracies worldwide. Indeed, we are dealing with a gradual decrease in voting turnout, particularly evident with younger generations, however, this drop has accelerated dramatically regardless of democratic traditions and geopolitical contexts. Elections to the European parliament are one of the indicators of this trend since the average turnout rates in this race fail to match that of the national level elections in virtually all member states. The fact that citizens are gradually withdrawing from institutional politics demands immediate action, first and foremost by institutions and actors directly involved in this process; and this report should be understood as a step in this direction. The purpose of this paper is thus to embed Youth Survey and Segmentation Analysis Report into the discourse on youth political participation which has been one of the dominant discourses in the field of youth for the past decades, both from academic (research) as well as practitioners’ point of view. With intention to better target and better understand the youth audience, particularly from the side of catering the needs of different target groups as well as voting behaviour, the European Parliament addressed the need to acquire key information related to successful youth outreach initiatives, information needs of young people, successful youth engagement strategies and youth voting behaviour, particularly when it comes to the Elections to the European Parliament. As an accompanying tool of the Youth Survey Questionnaire implemented by IPSOS, this report seeks to provide answers to some of the key questions related to the efforts of European institutions in their attempt to bridge the gap between them and young people. Additional information is therefore revealed about the “usual” and “unusual” suspects when it comes to young people and European Union institutional politics, the position of structurally disadvantaged young people and the factors influencing their engagement, what information best inform and empower young people, what are they interested in, and what communication channels facilitate their engagement activities the most. At the end of the day, this report also addresses the issue of low youth participation at the European elections and ways to overcome it.
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ISBN 978-92-846-8609-4
DOI 10.2861/740120
Katalognummer QA-08-21-308-EN-N
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ISSN ISBN 978-92-846-8609-4 DOI 10.2861/740120 Katalognummer QA-08-21-308-EN-N
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