Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe

1. Introduction: Thinking Globally, Understanding Locally
Gary Pollock, Hilary Pilkington, Renata Franc

Part I. Context-Sensitive Survey Research

2. Survey Research and Sensitivity to Context: The MYPLACE Project and Its Case Study Approach
Gary Pollock

3. Beyond ‘Left’ and ‘Right’? The Role of Culture and Context in Young People’s Understanding of Ideology
Inta Mieriņa

4. 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, Alexandros Sakellariou

Part II. Beyond Comparison? Transnational Qualitative Research

5. Can Qualitative Data Speak Beyond the Individual Case? Employing Meta-Ethnography for the Synthesis of Findings in Transnational Research Projects
Hilary Pilkington

6. ‘One Big Family’: Emotion, Affect and Solidarity in Young People’s Activism in Radical Right and Patriotic Movements
Hilary Pilkington, Elena Omelchenko, Benjamin Perasović

7. Believing in Participation: Youth, Religion and Civic Engagement
Alexandros Sakellariou

8. Young People’s Attitudes to, and Practices of, Political Participation on the Internet: What Can We Learn from Large-Scale Qualitative Research?
Flórián Sipos

Part III. Triangulation in Practice

9. Introduction to Triangulating Data
Renata Franc

10. Youth, History and a Crisis of Democracy? Perspectives from Croatia
Renata Franc, Benjamin Perasović, Marko Mustapić

11. 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, Kevin Wolnik

12. History in Danger and Youth Civic Engagement: Perceptions and Practice in Telavi, Georgia
Tamar Khoshtaria, Mariam Kobaladze, Tinatin Zurabishvili

13. Conclusion: What is the ‘Value Added’ of Multi-method, Transnational Research?
Hilary Pilkington, Renata Franc, Gary Pollock

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Ethnography, Sociology of Citizenship, Democracy