Youth Participation in Developmental Policies Process Making in Jordan

Sociological Explanation of Youth Participation in Tehran

Participation is one of important topics highly focused on in various social, political and cultural areas. Today the youth as an effective group in participation has taken a crucial role in political, social and cultural decisions of the society. This research aims to present a sociological analysis of the youth participation, causes, procedure, and the challenges concerned. To achieve this pu...

Assessing Patient Participation in Health Policy Decision-Making in Cyprus

Although the importance of patient participation in the design and evaluation of health programs and services is well-documented, there is scarcity of research with regard to patient association (PA) participation in health policy decision-making processes. To this end, the present study aimed to validate further a previously developed instrument as well as to investigate the degree of PA parti...

Participation in the Law-making Process: the Lexipation Approach

Among the various solutions and tools for participatory law-making, an interesting one is being set forth by the LexiPation project. Basically the idea is to integrate the Living Labs methodology with an existing technology platform allowing to conduct moderated online discourses, to define a workflow of citizens’ involvement at the different stages of the legislative process. This paper descri...

Youth Participation in Community Evaluation

Should young people participate in community evaluation research and, if so, what roles should they play? We believe that youth participation is desirable, but that it remains relatively undeveloped as a field of practice or subject of study. For this reason, this paper provides perspective on the increasing involvement by young people, identifies the participation patterns and evaluation roles...

Declining Participation in Christian Youth