Political Participation and Institutional Trust of Young Adults in Ukraine: Matching Economic and Political Conditions with European Social Survey Fieldwork Periods, 2004–2012
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2018
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The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Whereas economic grievance and the political opportunity structure could be the basis for
understanding Ukrainian youth political participation and institutional trust, to date, no one
has systematically applied the necessary contextual information to survey data to make this
claim. To study these topics with survey data, we would need to match this context to the
specific fieldwork periods in which the survey data was collected. In this article, I match the
economic and political situations of young adults in Ukraine with the fieldwork periods of the
European Social Survey (ESS) from 2004 to 2012. This facilitates the use of ESS to test
theories of grievance and political opportunity structure. I found that periods of economic
grievance do not neatly align with trends in participation and trust. The possibility is open
for the continual low participation and trust to be associated with the political opportunity
structure provided predominantly by political parties during mass uprisings.
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political participation, institutional trust, youth, economic grievance, political opportunity structure
Citation
Ask: Research and Methods. Volume 27, Issue 1 (2018), pp. 61-86