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Youth, Democracy and Populism in Croatian Context: Key Fidings of MYPLACE Project

Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar was partner in FP7 EU project MYPLACE (2011-2015). MYPLACE employs a combination of survey (N=17, 000), interviews/focus groups and ethnographic research instruments to provide new, pan-European data that not only measure levels of participation but capture the meanings young people attach to it. Conceptually, it goes beyond the comparison of discrete national 'political cultures' or reified classifications of political heritage ('postcommunist'/'liberal democratic') ; it is premised rather on the pan- European nature of a range of radical and populist political and philosophical traditions and the cyclical rather than novel nature of the popularity they currently enjoy. Key aims of MYPLACE project were: to map the range of youth activism across Europe and the ways in which young activists are networked inter-regionally and trans-nationally ; to understand the appeal of radical, extreme or populist movements to young people and its relationship to regional, national and European political heritage ; to inform and assist policy and practitioner agencies to chart and evaluate the political responses to populism in the youth related policies of political parties and within young people's own activism. In this paper, we will present key findings of the project regarding Croatian context. Croatian respondents expressed strong dissatifaction with political elite and low trust in political institutions. There is a whole spectrum of active/passive, democratic/autocratic and other lines of differentiation in type of responses to present state of democracy.

Youth, Democracy, Populism, MYPLACE, Croatian

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