YOUTH POLICY THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUTH: IS THE PROBLEM IN PR?

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify and characterize assessments of state youth policy by representatives of Russian youth themselves. The relevance of the study consists of combination of a fundamental review of the main directions of research on the role of youth participation in the socio-political process and the involvement of a specific empirical study conducted in the spring of 2019, which allows us to highlight various aspects of the situation. The empirical part of the study is based on the study “Young people's ideas about the modern socio-political process”, which was conducted in the spring of 2019 in four constituent entities of the Russian Federation - Altai Territory, Leningrad and Novosibirsk Regions, and St. Petersburg. The research method was a personalized standardized interview, the sample size was 1000 respondents (250 in each of the regions) who were representatives of young people aged 14 to 30 years old, permanently residing in the territories of the studied subjects of the Federation. Based on factorial and cluster analyzes, the main models of expectations of the political future are presented. The article should be of interest to researchers who are professionally engaged in this topic, and simply interested in the topic of the influence of the real political process on such a significant group of the population as youth.