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Youth in New Europe: Economic Activity and EU Policy Preferences

The research is conducted within the Youth Activation Network project funded through the European Social Fund (UP.04.2.1.06.0048). The project seeks to explore why young people tend to be more socially disengaged, with specific focus on Croatia. Although previous literature has established that youths are less likely to take an interest in politics, to vote, to trust in institutions or to engage in civic participation (Salvatore et al., 2012), the evidence is relatively scarce for post-transition societies. We explore factors contributing to different preferences for EU budget spending between youth and the rest of the population. Empirical analysis is focused on European post-transition societies, where youth has been additionally adversely affected by the 2009 crisis. Thus, youth economic activity, with specific focused on unemployment, is explored as potentially important factor shaping their policy preferences. Previous literature has already revealed that in some post- transition societies, youth political knowledge and their interest in politics are relatively poor (Lavrič, Tomanović and Jusić, 2019). The contribution of the present paper is that it explores youth preferences for specific policy options delivered by the supranational entity and correlating them to the youth socioeconomic characteristics.

Youth, post-transition, unemployment, policy preferences

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