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Causes of low civic and political participation of children and youth in the CR

Autor Mgr. Jindřiška Rousová
Organisation Univerzita Karlova / Fakulta sociálních věd
Year 2012
Research type master thesis
Annotation This thesis deals with the topic of low civic and political participation of children and youth in the Czech Republic. Participatory democracy theory and theory of civil society are used as starting values. The work deals mainly with organized civic and political participation of children and youth. It is shown, based on several international studies, that in comparison with other states the civic and political participation of Czech children and youth is of the significantly lower level. Area of youth participation falls within the national policy on youth and therefore this work describes basic public-policy documents that are related to the topic of participation of children and youth. In the frame of this work, analysis of the actors involved in the czech youth policy-making, was done. Possible ways of civic and political participation of children and young people, such as children and youth associations, school parliaments, political parties, academic senates, etc, are discussed as well The work identified the main causes of low civic and political participation of children and youth and also proposed specific measures which can help to increase the level of civic and political participation of children and youth in the Czech Republic.
Keywords Children, youth, political participation, civic participation, civil society, democracy, youth policy, association, education for citizenship.
Research type unrepeated research
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Obor AO Sociology, demography
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Link https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/105413/
Research location Ano
Organisation Univerzita Karlova / Fakulta sociálních věd
Possible connection Children and Youth Ratio in population
Number of children and young people
Expected numbers of children and young people
Number of addressed clients by the Youth Information Centres network
International youth cooperation
Registry administrator Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Operator Národní pedagogický institut ČR
In cooperation Czech Council of Children and Youth
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