Youth doing politics in times of increasing inequalities
| Author | Marco Giugni,Maria Grasso |
| Published date | 01 February 2022 |
| Date | 01 February 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211042738 |
| Subject Matter | Special Issue Introduction |
https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211042738
Politics
2022, Vol. 42(1) 3 –12
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Youth doing politics in times
of increasing inequalities
Maria Grasso
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Marco Giugni
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Abstract
Particularly in the current context of rapid political change, it is crucial to understand the
political participation of young people and what underpins their political engagement patterns
as well the as the inequalities that may lie beneath them. While there is a rich literature on
youth participation, to date we have lacked the data to carry out detailed subgroup analyses to
understand differences in the political participation between different groups of youth cross-
nationally. The papers in this Special Issue all examine different aspects of youth participation in the
current context. They examine key questions for participation including the inequalities, socialising
influences, polarisation, online participation, radical political views, tolerance, life engagement and
opportunities for social inclusion. This Special Issue thus provides a contemporary analysis of
youth participation in Europe in the current historical juncture.
Keywords
inequalities, political engagement, political participation, protest, youth politics
Received: 13th July 2021; Revised version received: 27th July 2021; Accepted: 3rd August 2021
Youth political participation has been the subject of much research and debate and there
has been much discussion of the decline of youth participation – particularly institutional
or ‘conventional’ political participation (Grasso, 2016). Many such discussions have been
framed around the ‘youth deficit’ model, assuminug that adults need to politically social-
ise young people (Earl et al., 2017). However, there are examples everywhere around us
of young people actively involved in their own political socialisation and in a wide array
of political activities of various sorts – most commonly those related to social movements
and so-called ‘unconventional’ or extra-institutional modes of political participation
(Giugni and Grasso, 2019a). Moreover, historically, youth have been understood to have
Corresponding author:
Maria Grasso, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
Email: m.grasso@qmul.ac.uk
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