Young People's Critical Politicization in Spain in the Great Recession: A Generational Reconfiguration?

Benedicto, Jorge; Ramos Martín, María

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Young People's Critical Politicization in Spain in the Great Recession: A Generational Reconfiguration?

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.contributor.author	Benedicto, Jorge
dc.contributor.author	Ramos Martín, María
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-11T16:29:02Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-11T16:29:02Z
dc.date.issued	2018-09-18
dc.description.abstract	During the last decade, Spain has experienced, like other surrounding countries, a deep economic crisis accompanied by an unprecedented political and institutional crisis. This has led to a growing mistrust in institutions and a dissatisfaction with democracy, but also an increase in interest in politics, which implies an interesting change regarding other situations. Young people of the so-called 'crisis generation', who have socialized in a new and changing context, also participate in this process of change, and have moreover played a leading role in the public space. In order to analyze young people's politicization process, in this article we use data from the European Social Survey (rounds 1&-7, from 2000 to 2014) and the Young People in Spain Survey (2016). We developed a typology of attitudes towards politics and identified, using discrete choice models, the demographic and socioeconomic profile of young people particularly dissatisfied with politics. Our results show that, although young people socialized in the context of the crisis are very critical of politics, instead of moving further away from democratic politics or rejecting it openly, in most cases they politicize their discontent. Even those most critical of the way in which democracy works in the country have a very participatory political behavior, both in forms of nonelectoral and electoral participation.	en
dc.format.extent	30	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Benedicto, J., & Ramos, M. (2018). Young People’s Critical Politicization in Spain in the Great Recession: A Generational Reconfiguration? Societies 8(3), p. 89.	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8030089
dc.identifier.issn	2075-4698
dc.identifier.publicationissue	8	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Societies	en
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	3	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39057
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000022472
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.rights	© 2018 by the authors.	en
dc.rights	Atribución 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Política	es
dc.subject.other	Youth studies	en
dc.subject.other	Generations	en
dc.subject.other	Political socialization	en
dc.subject.other	Political discontent	en
dc.subject.other	Political behavior	en
dc.subject.other	Trust in institutions	en
dc.subject.other	Democracy satisfaction	en
dc.subject.other	Transitions to adulthood	en
dc.title	Young People's Critical Politicization in Spain in the Great Recession: A Generational Reconfiguration?	en
dc.type	research article	*
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