Causes of low civic and political participation of children and youth in the CR
Autor | Mgr. Jindřiška Rousová |
Organisation | Univerzita Karlova / Fakulta sociálních věd |
Year | 2012 |
Research type | master thesis |
Annotation | This thesis deals with the topic of low civic and political participation of children and youth in the Czech Republic. Participatory democracy theory and theory of civil society are used as starting values. The work deals mainly with organized civic and political participation of children and youth. It is shown, based on several international studies, that in comparison with other states the civic and political participation of Czech children and youth is of the significantly lower level. Area of youth participation falls within the national policy on youth and therefore this work describes basic public-policy documents that are related to the topic of participation of children and youth. In the frame of this work, analysis of the actors involved in the czech youth policy-making, was done. Possible ways of civic and political participation of children and young people, such as children and youth associations, school parliaments, political parties, academic senates, etc, are discussed as well The work identified the main causes of low civic and political participation of children and youth and also proposed specific measures which can help to increase the level of civic and political participation of children and youth in the Czech Republic. |
Keywords | Children, youth, political participation, civic participation, civil society, democracy, youth policy, association, education for citizenship. |
Research type | unrepeated research |
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Obor | AO Sociology, demography |
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Availability | available in the NRVDM electronic library |
Download research | 1519855733.pdf |
Link | https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/105413/ |
Research location | Ano |
Organisation | Univerzita Karlova / Fakulta sociálních věd |
Possible connection | Children and Youth Ratio in population Number of children and young people Expected numbers of children and young people Number of addressed clients by the Youth Information Centres network International youth cooperation |