What Matters? Non-Electoral Youth Political Participation in Austerity Britain

What Matters? Non-Electoral Youth Political Participation in Austerity Britain

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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, Britain’s young people have been disproportionately affected by policies of welfare retrenchment.Youth disillusionment with austerity has been cited as a reason for the youthquake witnessed in the 2017 General Election, where the Labour Party’s better-than-expected performance resulted in FORMATION OF A DIGITAL EDUCATION MODEL IN TERMS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF EU COUNTRIES) the loss of the ruling Conservative Party government’s parliamentary majority.The degree of one-party dominance among younger voters was unprecedented, with Labour’s aggressively pro-youth agenda paying dividends.However, this paper takes the attention away from voting behaviour and towards non-electoral forms of youth political participation in the UK.

What are the strongest predictors of non-electoral political participation among young British people? Three possible predictors are explored: educational attainment, level of trust in politicians, and party identification.Three forms of non-electoral participation are considered: signing a petition, taking part in a boycott and sharing political messages on social media.Using a bespoke representative survey commissioned by Hope Not Hate, this paper finds that educational attainment does not have a particularly strong effect on non-electoral participation, with Labour Party identification Structural and biochemical characterization of SrcA, a multi-cargo type III secretion chaperone in Salmonella required for pathogenic association with a host. being significantly associated with all three forms.A strong relationship is also discovered between identifying with a ‘minor party’ and non-electoral political participation among Britain’s young people.