Youth Civic Engagement

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel explores the ways that young people are engaging in politics and the motivations that underpin their participation. Young people are concerned about issues that directly impact their lives, such as gun violence. Their views of the political world are shaped by their collective sense of injustice, powerlessness, and marginalization. These papers examine mechanisms for youth civic engagement, including their participation in networks, social movements, and collective action.

Sub Unit

• Division 58: Civic Engagement

Individual Presentations

• Inequalities in Young People’s Civic Engagement in the Global South - Khadija Mitu, University of Chittagong; Workneh Abebe Yadete, ODI; Nicola Jones; Kate Pincock, ODI; Sally Youssef, ODI

• Using Social Network Analysis to Study the Political Socialization of Youth - Nicolas Riveros Medelius, Harvard University

Chair

• Richard M. Battistoni Providence College

Discussant

• Diana M. Owen Georgetown University