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Youth as a Barometer of the Future? The Youth Agenda in Contemporary Russia as Viewed by Youth Policy Experts

Monitoring obŝestvennogo mneniâ: èkonomičeskie i socialʹnye peremeny, 2022-03 (2), p.66 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright VCIOM, Russian Public Opinion Research Center Mar/Apr 2022 ;ISSN: 1815-8617 ;EISSN: 2219-5467 ;DOI: 10.14515/monitoring.2022.2.2078

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  • Title:
    Youth as a Barometer of the Future? The Youth Agenda in Contemporary Russia as Viewed by Youth Policy Experts
  • Author: Omelchenko, Elena L ; Lisovskaya, Irina V
  • Subjects: Adolescent development ; Economic development ; Employees ; Executives ; Experts ; Government agencies ; Heads of state ; NGOs ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Optimism ; Public administration ; Regions ; Rhetoric ; Social change ; Social policy ; Socialization ; State formation ; Youth
  • Is Part Of: Monitoring obŝestvennogo mneniâ: èkonomičeskie i socialʹnye peremeny, 2022-03 (2), p.66
  • Description: Youth policy as a sphere of state administration is a national project based on a generational contract between the state and the youth. The state converts available resources into the socialization of the youth, ensuring the future development of the national state and society. The formation of the youth agenda involves employees of various government agencies and institutions whose tasks include youth-related issues. Depending on priorities, youth can be seen as a resource, an object of the national state, a significant agent, a subject, and an active participant in social change. The degree of agency of various youth groups and their opportunities (rights) to influence significant decisions can be defined differently by experts, which forms different and contradictory visions of state youth policies and, accordingly, key projects aimed at the future of both the country and the youth. Based on the analysis of expert interviews (N = 30), the article aims to reconstruct the perceptions of the place and role of contemporary youth in the country's future and the critical issues of the youth agenda as a whole. The article suggests an interpretation of three divergent expert positions, among which tension and contradiction are found. The first is an optimistic view of the future, where the relationship between the state, represented by the Youth Policy, and the youth is considered a balanced dialogue based on a shared vision of Russia's bright future and the place and role of youth in bringing it closer. This approach is typical of upper-level Youth Policy leaders and NGOs management located in the Capital. The second is a moderately worried view of youth and the country's future, shared by the heads of state Youth Policy agencies and NGOs in the regions. The third expert position may be described as a critical and skeptical attitude toward the key program documents of the Youth Policies and state rhetoric regarding youth. It is shared by experts in the field - employees of municipal agencies and some regional NGOs and youth researchers from both the center and the regions. The article analyzes the lines of tension between conditional clusters of expert evaluations: from the center to the periphery, from the high-rank executives of the Youth Policy and subordinate bodies to local experts, from scholars to practitioners, from state structures to NGOs.
  • Publisher: Moscow: VCIOM, Russian Public Opinion Research Center
  • Language: English;Russian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1815-8617
    EISSN: 2219-5467
    DOI: 10.14515/monitoring.2022.2.2078
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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