Political and Civic Participation among Ethnic Majority and Minority Youth (original) (raw)

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology

Abstract

This chapter reviews the numerous factors that are related to political and civic participation by majority and minority youth. These factors range from the macro political and societal characteristics of the countries in which these individuals live, through demographic and proximal social factors, to endogenous psychological factors. It is argued that there is a need for a clear conceptualisation and typology of specific forms of political and civic participation when trying to identify the processes leading to youth participation, and that the influences that operate for each particular form of participation differ from one national-institutional context to another and from one ethnic group to another within any given national-institutional context. The review further emphasises the need for research to adopt a more complex multilevel approach to the study of youth participation in which macro, demographic, social and psychological levels are simultaneously studied, and the need for theoretical accounts to incorporate factors at all of these different levels.

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