Employment Situation, Social Capital, and Political Participation: A Survey of Unemployed and Precarious Youth in Geneva
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This paper examines the relationships between employment status, social capital, and the political participation of young people. To do so, we compare young long-term unemployed, precarious youth, and regularly employed youth. These are three groups that have a different employment status, going from being totally integrated to being fully excluded from the labor market, passing through a sort of intermediate (precarious) situation whereby they go in and out from it. We aim to determine whether full or partial exclusion from the labor market deters the potential youngsters have for political participation and therefore for taking part in the democratic process. This is all the more important in the light of the often stressed political alienation of young people (Bay and Blekesaune 2002; Dalton 2009).
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