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Deliverable 4.5: A series of country specific analyses which highlight local historical and cultural factors and which contrast the two regions sampled

The aim of work package 4 (WP4) of MYPLACE project was to measure young people’s political participation in a broad sense, and also to measure knowledge of, attitudes towards and experiences of extreme politics as well as democratic participation and representation. Survey was conducted on representative samples of youth aged between 16-25 in two contrasting locations (Podsljeme and Peščenica) using a common questionnaire. Young people in both locations had relatively low interest in politics, express negative attitudes toward politicians and politics and had low level of trust in different political and societal institutions. They believe that legitimate ways of political participation (e.g. voting or signing petitions) are the most effective way of influencing politics. Youth in both locations reported low involvement in both cause and campaign oriented activism and generally low level of civic engagement. They are very or quite proud to have Croatian citizenship, show moderate level of religiosity and have negative attitudes towards religious influence in politics, and on average have a neutral general attitude towards national minorities.

survey; political interests; participation; citizenship; social networks; gender and sexuality; religion; minority groups; understanding of democracy; history and memory

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