Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe

Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. Gary Pollock is Professor and Head of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Renata Franc is Senior Research Fellow and Professor at Institute Ivo Pilar, Croatia.

Introduction: Thinking globally, understanding locally; Gary Pollock, Hilary Pilkington and Renata Franc.- Part 1: Beyond comparison? Context-sensitive survey research.- 1. Survey research and sensitivity to context: The MYPLACE project and its case study approach; Gary Pollock.- 2. Beyond 'left' and 'right'? The role of culture and context in young people's understanding of ideology; Inta Mieriņa.- 3. Attitudes towards the EU among young people in eastern Germany, Greece, and the UK: embedding survey data within socio-historical context; Robert Grimm, Gary Pollock, Mark Ellison, Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos and Alexandros Sakellariou.- Part 2: Beyond comparison? Transnational qualitative research.- 4. Can qualitative data speak beyond the individual case? Employing meta-ethnography for the synthesis of findings in transnational research; Hilary Pilkington.- 5. ‘One big family’: Emotion, affect and solidarity in young people’s activism in radical right and patriotic movements; Hilary Pilkington, Elena Omel’chenko and Benjamin Perasović.- 6. Believing in participation: Youth, religion and civic engagement; Alexandros Sakellerion.- 7. Young people's attitudes to, and practices of, political participation on the Internet: what can we learn from large-scale qualitative research?; Florian Sipos.- Part 3: Triangulation in practice.- 8. Introduction to triangulating data; Renata Franc.- 9. Youth, history and a crisis of democracy? Perspectives from Croatia; Renata Franc, Benjamin Perasović and Marko Mustapić.- 10. Does history matter for young people`s political identity? The role of past authoritarianism in Germany and Spain; Britta Busse, Mariona Ferrer-Fons, Robert Grimm, Jochen Tholen, Sanjin Uležić and Kevin Wolnik.- 11. History in danger and youth civic engagement: Perceptions and Practice in Telavi, Georgia; Tamar Khoshtaria, Mariam Kobaladze and Tinatin Zurabishvili.- 12. Conclusion: What is the ‘value added’ of multi-method, transnational research?; Hilary Pilkington, Renata Franc and Gary Pollock.