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This book explores the relationship between youth labour market
marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of
Portugal and the role played by austerity policies in shaping
patterns of activism. Through integrating primary and secondary
empirical evidence with key ideas from classical and contemporary
Sociology, the authors illustrate some of the key features of youth
unemployment and job precariousness, also highlighting trends in
formal and informal activist activities. Central to Youth
Unemployment and Job Precariousness is the argument that following
the onset of the economic crisis, there has been the birth of what
we the authors term 'an austerity generation', comprised of young
people facing difficulties in the labour market and uncertain
futures. The book also highlights the difficulties young people
have in making a political response to austerity, as well as their
hopes for the future, including the need to raise consciousness
about youth labour market marginalization and to return to more
accountable forms of democracy.
Representative democracies are facing huge challenges that stem
from long trends of citizens' dissatisfaction and weakening of
political legitimacy, on the one hand, and the effects of global
economic and financial crisis on electoral alignments and the
patterns of government, on the other. This volume uses the
Portuguese case as an important case study to examine the long-term
debate on the crisis of representative democracies with the attempt
to assess the impact of the Great Recession. In particular, this
study examines two relevant dimensions, namely citizens'
participation and mobilization, as well as longitudinal evolution
of the linkages between voters and MPs, highlighting both
continuities and changes. Through a wide and rich data collection
and the comparative perspective adopted, this study furthers our
understanding of how Portuguese democracy has bounced back and has
emerged as a peculiar case among European democracies, especially
if we look at innovate democratic practices - at both citizens' and
elites' level - that have been adopted after the Great Recession.
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