Youth in the Kaleidoscope : Civic Participation Types in Estonia and the Czech Republic

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Authors

BEILMANN Mai KALMUS Veronika MACEK Jakub MACKOVÁ Alena ŠEREK Jan

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sociální studia
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Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia/article/view/11460
Keywords youth; civic participation; political participation; digitally networked participation; CATCH-EyoU; Estonia; Czech Republic
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Description This paper presents an exploratory typological analysis of young people (aged 15–30) as political and civic actors in Estonia and the Czech Republic. We compare youth civic engagement patterns in these two East European countries, sharing similar socio-historical contexts, and analyse the sociodemographic and attitudinal profiles of the resulting participation types. The study draws on Estonian and Czech data sets collected from November to December 2016 within the Horizon 2020 project ‘CATCH-EyoU – Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions’. Two independent methods (latent class analysis and cluster analysis) demonstrated shared patterns in the political and civic activities employed by the Estonian and Czech participants, suggesting the existence of four clearly distinguishable types of young citizens. A more detailed analysis revealed that the socio-demographic and attitudinal profiles of active young people, and therefore, the factors of political socialization, differed quite substantially in the two countries.
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