Youth Cohort Size, Structural Socioeconomic Conditions, and Youth Protest Behavior in Democratic Societies (1995-2014)

Autor/in	Nkansah, Godfred Bonnah
Titel	Youth Cohort Size, Structural Socioeconomic Conditions, and Youth Protest Behavior in Democratic Societies (1995-2014)
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 12 (2022) 2, (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nkansah, Godfred Bonnah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/21582440221096146
Schlagwörter	Risk; Political Attitudes; Violence; Peace; Activism; Prediction; Socioeconomic Influences; Democracy; Student Attitudes; Surveys; Social Values; International Organizations; Student Participation; Volunteers; Student Behavior; Social Systems; Advantaged; Correlation; Unemployment; Educational Attainment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Risiko; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Gewalt; Frieden; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Vorhersage; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Demokratie; Schülerverhalten; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Sozialer Wert; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Freiwilliger; Student behaviour; Social system; Soziales System; Korrelation; Arbeitslosigkeit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut
Abstract	Conventional literature associates large youth cohort size (YCS) with increased risk of political violence in countries with such demographic profiles. Key questions which remain unanswered, however, are whether YCS is also associated with young people's proclivities toward more peaceful forms of protests, and whether structural socioeconomic conditions influence such a relationship? Using multilevel binary logistic regression techniques on pooled individual level data for 51 democratic countries purposively sampled from World Values Survey Waves 3 to 6, and country level data from World Bank, and UN Population Division, I show that YCS demonstrates a positive relationship with young people's participation in peaceful demonstrations. This relationship is, however, moderated by structural factors such as education and unemployment, which end up reducing young people's likelihood of participation. I argue that resource limitation, as predicted by the Civic Voluntarism Model, better explains the relationship between YCS and individual youth protest behavior in democratic societies, more than socioeconomic grievance, as suggested by grievance theory. An important implication of this finding is that participation in elite-challenging behaviors such as peaceful protests, can be expected to be more common among young people in affluent democratic societies, than their peers elsewhere in the democratic world. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01