Meaningful Youth Political Participation in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Policy Implications

This study on youth political participation builds on long-established research interest shown by expert publications (e.g. Forbrig 2005), insights into innova- tive forms of youth participation (Crowley and Moxon 2017), literature reviews (e.g. Galstyan 2019), toolkits and expert perspectives (e.g. Deželan 2018, Farrow 2018) and outcomes of the symposium “The future of young people’s political participation: questions, challenges and opportunities” held in 2019 (EU-Council of Europe youth partnership 2019, Bacalso 2019). Seeking to move conversations on youth political participation forward, this theoretical study is built on an extensive literature review and highlights some less frequently debated dimensions of youth political participation, and introduces original avenues for defining meaningful youth political participation.