Youth Participation in Democratic Life

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Challenge of Youth Participation

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

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3. Youth Participation: Theoretical Positioning and Methodology

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

   Pages 17-47

4. Participation of Youth in Elections: Beyond Youth Apathy

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

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5. Youth Participation in European Policymaking: Representation and Limits to Participation

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

   Pages 83-104

6. Youth Participation Beyond Voting: Volunteering and Contestation

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

   Pages 105-132

7. Participation of Youth In and Through Media: Traditional and New Media

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

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8. Youth Participation and Exclusion: Towards Equal Treatment in Public Space, Education and the Workplace

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

   Pages 167-196

9. Concluding Thoughts and Tribulations

   • Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

   Pages 197-213

10. Back Matter

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This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understand democracy broadly as both institutional politics and civic cultures, and a wide range of methods are used to analyse and assess youth participation and attitudes.

• Youth
• Participation
• Democracy
• Voting
• Activism
• Exclusion
• democracy
• education
• elections
• European policy
• Institution
• methodology
• methods
• nature
• New Media
• participation
• Policy
• politics
• Tradition
• voting

• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Bart Cammaerts, Michael Bruter, Shakuntala Banaji, Sarah Harrison, Nick Anstead

Bart Cammaerts is Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communications of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where he is the director of the PhD program. He is the former chair of the Communication and Democracy Section of ECREA and current vice-chair of the Communication Policy and Technology section of IAMCR.
 

Michael Bruter is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He directs the ECREP research initiative in electoral psychology and related 'Inside the Mind of a Voter' project funded by the European Research Council.

Shakuntala Banaji is director of the MSc in Media, Communication and Development in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She lectures in development communication, international media and world cinema.

Sarah Harrison is a Research Fellow within the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She currently works on an European Research Council funded project in electoral psychology entitled 'Inside the Mind of a Voter'.

Nick Anstead is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communications of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the director of the MSc in Politics and Communication.

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