TY - GEN

T1 - Network Analysis of Z Gen Political Participation in Youth Parliament

AU - Толстикова, Ирина Ивановна

AU - Игнатьева, Ольга Анатольевна

AU - Кондратенко, Константин Сергеевич

AU - Плетнев, Александр Владиславович

N1 - Conference code: 26

PY - 2024/11/9

Y1 - 2024/11/9

N2 - The chapter analyzes one of the forms of political participation of young people in the political life of society—the work in the youth parliament, which is an advisory body to the real bodies of representative power. This type of political participation is becoming an increasingly common conventional form of youth political engagement. For example, in 2022, a youth parliament was also formed under the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The purpose of the proposed study is to investigate forms of virtual networking and political participation of the young people in the Youth Parliament, using the example of the Youth Parliament of the Leningrad region, taking into account the career development and social capital of its representatives. The research has been done with the aid of methodology of network analysis supplemented. Inferences are interpreted with the aid of M. Mintrom and Ph. Norman’s theoretical framework. The sample consisted 26 actors who were deputies of the Youth Parliament. As a result of the research, the following findings have been done: the body has a weak representativeness of generation Z, the informal structure of the Youth parliament coincides with a formal, there is an isolated component that indicates on some difficulties in communication within a structure.

AB - The chapter analyzes one of the forms of political participation of young people in the political life of society—the work in the youth parliament, which is an advisory body to the real bodies of representative power. This type of political participation is becoming an increasingly common conventional form of youth political engagement. For example, in 2022, a youth parliament was also formed under the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The purpose of the proposed study is to investigate forms of virtual networking and political participation of the young people in the Youth Parliament, using the example of the Youth Parliament of the Leningrad region, taking into account the career development and social capital of its representatives. The research has been done with the aid of methodology of network analysis supplemented. Inferences are interpreted with the aid of M. Mintrom and Ph. Norman’s theoretical framework. The sample consisted 26 actors who were deputies of the Youth Parliament. As a result of the research, the following findings have been done: the body has a weak representativeness of generation Z, the informal structure of the Youth parliament coincides with a formal, there is an isolated component that indicates on some difficulties in communication within a structure.

KW - Generation Z, Network analysis, Youth parliament, Political Participation, Social media, Virtual interaction, Networking

KW - Generation Z

KW - Network analysis

KW - Networking

KW - Political participation

KW - Social media

KW - Virtual interaction

KW - Youth parliament

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/033d1ebe-2a00-3b9a-87b9-c8ef8acc094d/

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-67762-5_31

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-67762-5_31

M3 - статья в сборнике материалов конференции

SN - 978-3-031-67761-8

T3 - Springer Geography

SP - 397

EP - 410

BT - Digital Geography (IMS 2023)

PB - Springer Nature

CY - Switzerland

T2 - XXVI Международная объединённая научная конференция «Интернет и современное общество»

Y2 - 26 June 2023 through 28 June 2023

ER -