Hoekstra, Annerens (2022) Youth and the three P's: Participation in Provincial Politics. Master thesis, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
Implementation of the children’s right to participate in decision-making has proved to be a world-wide challenge (Gal, 2019; UNCRC, 2009). In the Netherlands, it is a challenge as well to motivate youth for politics (Jeugdmonitor, 2019) and the interest in provincial politics is most problematic (Kiesraad, 2022; De Blok et al., 2018). This study therefore focuses on improving youth participation in provincial politics, with the province of Groningen as research area. The research question is: which focus points should get (more) attention to increase youth participation in provincial politics in Groningen? In policy documents of the province of Groningen, youth participation has a prominent place and several initiatives regarding youth participation are organized in the province of Groningen. By analysing documents of these initiatives and asking young people by a survey about their experiences considering (provincial) political participation, results are found regarding three conditions that influence youth participation. These are conditions of organizations, conditions of young people and conditions of other actors (Shier et al., 2014). Based on the results, the following recommendations for the province of Groningen are formulated: involve young people in formulating purposes of initiatives, approach youth more like equal citizens, strive for more inclusion and diversity in events, draw up measures to protect the safety and privacy of participants (for example by a conduct of behaviour, a complaints procedure or external confidential contact persons), create fixed spots for young people in the decision-making cycle, provide training to people that work with youth, increase the impact of youth on decision-making, invest in a relation with young people, increase knowledge about provincial politics amongst young people, promote provincial politics and their influence / enlarge the visibility of provincial issues. By these recommendations, it is expected that youth participation in provincial politics in the province of Groningen will increase and young people will be given their right to be heard.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Schreuder, P.R. and Westberg, B.A.J. |
| Degree programme: | Pedagogical and Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route: | Youth 0-21, Society and Policy [Master Pedagogical and Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2022 14:47 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2022 14:47 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1493 |
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