Youth and Poiltical Participation

2011

CANKURTARAN ÖNTAŞ, Ö., BUZ, S. and HATIBOĞLU, B. (2012). Youth and Political Participation: Case in Turkey, European Journal of Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2011.620567. (SSCI-English/ online as part of the Preservation and Revitalization collection of Routledge Journals/ citated by three academic works) The aim of this research is to explore views about, and the extent of, political participation amongst students in a Department of Social Work. The sample was composed of 127 fourth and sixth-term students. One of the most striking outcomes of the research is that young peoples’ political participation remains low, despite widespread dissatisfaction with political and economic systems. The results of this study and analysis are based on sociocultural and historic developments specific to Turkey, specifically the culture of fear fostered in Turkey following the military coup d’état of 1980, and the influence this had in the intergenerational conveyance of the notion that the ‘father government’ can protect the public without the need for active political participation, which is still prevalent amongst the study participants.Bu araştırmada sosyal çalışma eğitimi alan öğrencilerin, politik katılım hakkındaki görüşleri ortaya çıkarılmaya çalışılmıştır. Araştırmaya sosyal hizmet bölümü dördüncü ve altıncı dönem öğrencilerinden toplam 127 öğrenci katılmıştır. Araştırmaların sonuçlarına bakıldığında gençlerin ekonomik-politik sistemden memnun olmamalarına karşın politik katılımlarının oldukça sınırlı kaldığı görülmektedir. Bununla birlikte Türkiye'de gençlerle yapılan politik katılımla ilgili araştırmalarda görülen sonuçlara benzer biçimde, örneğin haberleri takip etmek en yüksek oranda politik katılım biçimi iken herhangi bir siyasi parti faaliyetine katılım sözkonusu değildir. Gençlerin başarılı olmak için bireysel ve ailesel kaynaklarını kullanmak gerektiği düşüncesi yine araştırmanın önemli sonuçlarındandır. Gençlerin devlet tarafından önemsenmediği düşüncesi çoğunluk tarafından belirtilirken aynı zamanda kendileri de devletin uygulamalarına güvenmemektedirler. Öte yandan öğrenciler, devletin gençlere yönelik politikalarının oluşumuna tüm gençlerin katılımının sağlanması gerektiğini düşünmektedirler. Bu araştırmanın sonuçları, Türkiye'nin özgün tarihsel ve toplumsal koşullarına göre değerlendirildiğinde, 1980 sonrası yaşanan ve kuşaktan kuşağa aktarılan korku kültürünün halen egemen olduğu, devlet baba kurgusunun da politik katılım olmadan devletin kendilerini koruyacağı anlayışıyla birlikte, bu araştırma grubu için geçerliliğini koruduğunu belirtebiliriz.

The youth in the South Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey does not and cannot participate in politics. There are various reasons which make the issue of political participation of the youth a significant concern for the social policy makers. First of all, political participation is a basic human right. Next, it is a social right and an important dimension of being a citizen. Furthermore, the issue of youth participation has gained importance in recent years especially through the interest shown by the international policy agents. Finally, despite that much importance shown, youth political participation is very low in Turkey and specifically in South-eastern Anatolia due to some regional conditions. The quantitative survey conducted with 946 young people between the ages of 15- 24 who live in the South-eastern Anatolia region, fourteen focus group interviews and twenty nine in-depth interviews indicate several reasons for the low youth political participation in the region. Initially, the youth in the region cannot participate in social life. The participation in educational services is also low. The school enrolment rates are low and drop-outs are high. Moreover, the youth cannot participate in the labour market due to the limited job opportunities in the region and their low skills and low educational level. Furthermore, a great majority of the youth lives in their closed communities and has limited contact with the society. Apart from these socio-economic conditions, the concrete negative examples of the people who participate in politics and who have been repressed are also discouraging the youth from entering into political mechanisms.

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2016

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2009

Young people express an increasing rejection of institutional politics and its classic actors, which has led to the assertion that youth are apathetic. This article intends to show why this affirmation is partial and does not reflect the underlying complexity of what motivates political participation in young people. The hypothesis is that since young people interpret the youth condition as transitory, they do not consider youth political participation an end in itself. While the youth condition does not structure political participation or constitute actors and political projects, there are specificities of youth political participation that need to be identified. For the purpose of identifying what motivates youth to participate -- and how and where do they tend to do so -- three cases of political involvement are presented: ATTAC Argentina, the Klampun Community of Papua New Guinea and the World YWCA. The theoretical sections rest on a broadly based research study suggest a reformulation of the common adult perception on youth political participation.

Authors: Cristiano Bee & Ayhan Kaya

A Scale Development Study To Determine Attitudes And Behaviours Of Unıversity Students Towards Political And Administrative Participation, 2024

The development of democracy depends on the rise of the belief in democratic thought in the society. The functioning of democracy is possible with the realisation of participation in the administration of the country and the circulation of the results back to the people. The aim of this study is to measure the attitudes and behaviours of university students by developing a scale on political and administrative participation. This research, in which the attitudes and behaviours of the youth, which we call Generation Z, regarding political and administrative participation are measured and evaluated, differs from the scale studies conducted so far in this respect. Measuring the perception of young people, who are the future of the country, towards political and administrative participation is important for the realisation and development of democracy.

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

Youth in democratic activities has changed the political scenario of Pakistan. The current study was aimed to identify the youngsters towards their participation in democratic paractices and political activities. The novelity of presnt study is to introduce a new theory of 'Youth-Inn' which indicated the continuous youth participation and involvement in community problem solving, peers motivation, influence public to do vote, and other political matters. The phenomena of this study are based on the present political scenario of Pakistan and youth participation in building the political structure. The study was quantitative in nature and data were collected through random sampling techniques, hundreds of respondents participated from two provinces of Pakistan, which are Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The objective of the study is to highlight the performance of youth activities, contribution to the political participation, their role in political parties and interests in political and social matters. The findings of the study suggest that youth in Pakistan are increasingly participating in democratic, social and political activities, which are their basic and core responsibility to take apart and do sufficient steps for the country.