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Institution trustworthiness, political efficacy and justification of violence as determinants of youth civic participation

Primary goal of the paper is to explore the validity of various existing differentiations of youth civic participation in terms of establishing similarities and differences in their possible determinants. Specifically, the paper will explore usefulness of differentiating between normative and non-normative youth participation or institutionalized and electoral forms of political participation versus non-institutionalized forms of participation. In addition, the differentiation between violent collective participation and nonviolent collective participation will be explored. Paper will be based on Croatian survey data collected within MyPlace project. Data were collected by face to face interviews in two socioeconomic contrasting areas of city of Zagreb, from a random sample of young people aged between 16 and 25 (N=600 for both locations, total N=1200). Political participation measure encompassed 23 specific activities ranging from signing a petition to participating in a violent political event, during the last 12 months. In addition to sociodemographic variables and variables of political interest, paper will explore institution trustworthiness, political efficacy and justification of violence as main possible determinants of different forms of participation, taking into account multidimensionality of these construct. Specifically, the paper will explore the structure of trust towards 13 different institutions or organizations and perceived efficacy of 11 different political activities and their impact on different forms of youth civic participation. With regard to exploring the difference between violent and nonviolent collective participation the paper will explore the justification of violence (composite measure based on 8 items) as additional antecedent.

Institution trustworthiness; political efficacy; justification of violence; youth civic participation

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