Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe: From Survey to Ethnography

Introduction: Thinking globally, understanding locally; Gary Pollock, Hilary Pilkington and Renata Franc.- Part 1: Beyond comparison? Context-sensitive survey research.- 1. Survey research and sensitivity to context: The MYPLACE project and its case study approach; Gary Pollock.- 2. Beyond 'left' and 'right'? The role of culture and context in young people's understanding of ideology; Inta Mieri a.- 3. Attitudes towards the EU among young people in eastern Germany, Greece, and the UK: embedding survey data within socio-historical context; Robert Grimm, Gary Pollock, Mark Ellison, Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos and Alexandros Sakellariou.- Part 2: Beyond comparison? Transnational qualitative research.- 4. Can qualitative data speak beyond the individual case? Employing meta-ethnography for the synthesis of findings in transnational research; Hilary Pilkington.- 5. 'One big family': Emotion, affect and solidarity in young people's activism in radical right and patriotic movements; Hilary Pilkington, Elena Omel'chenko and Benjamin Perasovic.- 6. Believing in participation: Youth, religion and civic engagement; Alexandros Sakellerion.- 7. Young people's attitudes to, and practices of, political participation on the Internet: what can we learn from large-scale qualitative research?; Florian Sipos.- Part 3: Triangulation in practice.- 8. Introduction to triangulating data; Renata Franc.- 9. Youth, history and a crisis of democracy? Perspectives from Croatia; Renata Franc, Benjamin Perasovic and Marko Mustapic.- 10. Does history matter for young people`s political identity? The role of past authoritarianism in Germany and Spain; Britta Busse, Mariona Ferrer-Fons, Robert Grimm, Jochen Tholen, Sanjin Ulezic and Kevin Wolnik.- 11. History in danger and youth civic engagement: Perceptions and Practice in Telavi, Georgia; Tamar Khoshtaria, Mariam Kobaladze and Tinatin Zurabishvili.- 12. Conclusion: What is the 'value added' of multi-method, transnational research?; Hilary Pilkington, Renata Franc and Gary Pollock.