Citizenship, language tests, and political participation

Can Political Participation Prevent Crime? Results from a Field Experiment about Citizenship, Participation, and Criminality

Democratic theory and prior empirical work support the view that political participation, by promoting social integration and pro-social attitudes, reduces one’s propensity for anti-social behavior, such as committing a crime. Previous investigations examine observational data, which are vulnerable to bias if omitted factors affect both propensity to participate and risk of criminality or their...

Youth, Participation, Leisure and Citizenship

The purpose with this article is to describe, explore, and discuss texts that ten Swedish local councils present on their homepages from the perspective of leisure, influence and citizenship for youths. Content analysis is used as a method in order to understand the content and structure of texts such as political aims, strategical plans and budgets. The result of the empirical study shows that...

Political Efficacy and political participation

Political Participation and EU Citizenship: Perceptions and Behaviours of Young People Evidence from Eurobarometer surveys

1 Contents Introduction 2 1. Changing patterns of political engagement and new citizenship perceptions: conceptual overview 4 2. Young people and political participation 6 2.1. Effective ways of influencing decision-making: perceptions of young people 6 2.2. Young people's political participation: traditional and new ways of expressing opinions 10 3. Young people and their perception of EU citi...

Political Participation and EU Citizenship: Perceptions and Behaviours of Young People Evidence from Eurobarometer surveys

1 Contents Introduction 2 1. Changing patterns of political engagement and new citizenship perceptions: conceptual overview 4 2. Young people and political participation 6 2.1. Effective ways of influencing decision-making: perceptions of young people 6 2.2. Young people's political participation: traditional and new ways of expressing opinions 10 3. Young people and their perception of EU citi...