Youth Political Representation Research Network
@youthpolrep.bsky.social
Bringing together academics, practitioners, and activists who are passionate about youth's political representation in elected office. Research bibliography and more info: https://youthpoliticalrep.wixsite.com/youthpolrep
👋New update to the library! With works by @sergiohuertas.bsky.social, Rocio Sáez-Vergara, @josezuritat.bsky.social, @britanlar.bsky.social, Patrick McSweeney, Anne-Sophie König, Antonia Vesting, Shoko Tanaka, Pankaj Kumar Patel... (1/x)
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 11mo agoWant to get an overview of research on #youthpolrep? We have started a 💥thematically sorted bibliography💥 on our website! Let us know, if there are publications still missing 🤗
Next week there will be an in-person book presentation event at @uni-freiburg.de / @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social [in German]:
Kira Renée Kurz@kirareneekurz.bsky.social · last mo.Nächste Woche bin ich zu Gast in Freiburg (@pwunifreiburg.bsky.social) um unser Buch (mit @britanlar.bsky.social) vorzustellen und über die politische Repräsentation junger Menschen in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Alterung zu sprechen - herzliche Einladung! 😊 [in Präsenz und auf deutsch]
Exciting new publication on the representation of youth below voting age and migrants by @janabelschner.bsky.social, I. Faleide, J. Sipinen & A.J. Spitzer:
Representation by proxy? The democratic inclusion of youth and migrants | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Representation by proxy? The democratic inclusion of youth and migrants
cambridge.org
New publication on youth descriptive representation in the European Parliament by Kamila Kolodziejczyk and Daniel Stockemer in 'European Politics & Society' doi.org/10.1080/2374...
doi.org
New update to the library with works by @sergiohuertas.bsky.social & Vicente Faúndez-Caicedo, @dienerjulius.bsky.social, Devin Joshi, @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @britanlar.bsky.social Daniel Stockemer & @anlopatina.bsky.social, Omomayowa Abati & M. Adeniji, Gloria Kenyatta, Ernest Akumoah et al.
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 11mo agoWant to get an overview of research on #youthpolrep? We have started a 💥thematically sorted bibliography💥 on our website! Let us know, if there are publications still missing 🤗
Today, there will be a public lecture on the Politics of Age and Youth Political Representation hosted by @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social at the University of Greifswald (18:15 CEST). For more info, also on online participation, see the thread below.
IRTG Baltic Peripeties@baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn anticipation of today’s lecture we recommend @kirareneekurz.bsky.social latest publication „Youth Political Representation“. This book explores the challenges, opportunities, and reforms shaping youth political representation today.
This week friday, 5th of June (14:30 CEST) we will be hosting our ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH. Let me know if you want to join and I'll send you the link 🙂 #youthpolrep
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn relation to the publication of "Youth Political Representation", there will be a series of events, both on- and offline. We will post updates both here and on our website when additional events and dates are fixed :) More info below in the 🧵
🚨New publication 🚨 Vicente Faúndez-Caicedo & @sergiohuertas.bsky.social focus on decriptive youth representation across Latin America: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Youth representation in Latin American legislatures: Cross-national party-level evidence from the PELA project - Vicente Faúndez-Caicedo, Sergio Huertas-Hernández, 2026
Despite relatively low legal age thresholds for legislative office in Latin America, young people remain markedly underrepresented in national parliaments. Draw...
journals.sagepub.com
In relation to the publication of "Youth Political Representation", there will be a series of events, both on- and offline. We will post updates both here and on our website when additional events and dates are fixed :) More info below in the 🧵
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨OUT NOW🚨 Youth Political Representation - A Global Perspective on Young Adults Presence in Political Institutions Edited by @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @britanlar.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
In relation to the publication of "Youth Political Representation", there will be a series of events, both on- and offline. We will post updates both here and on our website when additional events and dates are fixed :) More info below in the 🧵
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨OUT NOW🚨 Youth Political Representation - A Global Perspective on Young Adults Presence in Political Institutions Edited by @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @britanlar.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🚨OUT NOW🚨 Youth Political Representation - A Global Perspective on Young Adults Presence in Political Institutions Edited by @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @britanlar.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🚨OUT NOW🚨 Youth Political Representation - A Global Perspective on Young Adults Presence in Political Institutions Edited by @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @britanlar.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
We have just added a big update to our bibliography on youth political representation - featuring works in English, Spanish and German! Did we miss anything? Would you like to see an additional category? Let us know! 😊
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 11mo agoWant to get an overview of research on #youthpolrep? We have started a 💥thematically sorted bibliography💥 on our website! Let us know, if there are publications still missing 🤗
We have just added a big update to our bibliography on youth political representation - featuring works in English, Spanish and German! Did we miss anything? Would you like to see an additional category? Let us know! 😊
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 11mo agoWant to get an overview of research on #youthpolrep? We have started a 💥thematically sorted bibliography💥 on our website! Let us know, if there are publications still missing 🤗
The IPU has published their newest report on youth participation in parliaments (by Devin Joshi), this time featuring many interviews with young MPs! www.ipu.org/resources/pu...
Youth participation in national parliaments: 2025
This 2025 report is the sixth IPU review of youth participation in national parliaments. It maps the presence of young members of parliament (MPs) worldwide, providing the most recent data on the prop...
ipu.org
After yesterday's post on the lowering of the candidacy age for some German local elections, there's another publication on German local level politics. Daniel Stockemer and Anna Lopatina focus on the candidate pool: #youthpolrep
European Political Science Review@epsrjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago🆕 Knee-high to a cricket: Why young candidates don’t get elected 🦗 @anlopatina.bsky.social & Daniel Stockemer use German local election data to assess the disadvantages young candidates face, and the roots of underrepresentation for youths in the candidate pool 🏊️ buff.ly/yg41jX9
An interesting publication by Hiroharu Saito, that we missed to share last year: Voter Evaluations of Youth Politicians: A Conjoint Experiment of Candidates’ Young Age in Japan link.springer.com/article/10.1... #youthpolrep #Japan
Voter Evaluations of Youth Politicians: A Conjoint Experiment of Candidates’ Young Age in Japan - Journal of Applied Youth Studies
The age of candidacy acts as a barrier that prevents youth from participating in politics as representatives. While the candidacy age has become a widely debated issue worldwide in recent years, littl...
link.springer.com
The German state of Baden-Wurttemberg has lowered candidacy age to 16 years and thus below majority age. Carina Winkels and @kirareneekurz.bsky.social present a first assessment of the reform. The article is in German, but there's a short thread in English.
Kira Renée Kurz@kirareneekurz.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨New Publication: On the City Council at 16!🚨 Carina Winkels and I analyze youth's descriptive representation in Baden-Württemberg's municipal councils after the 2024 elections. And we assess the lowering of the minimum age for candidacy from 18 to 16 years. 🧵 www.inlibra.com/de/document/...
📣 New article 🌟 👥 Jana Belschner, Jacob Aars & Jo Saglie 👉 Does Enfranchisement Increase Descriptive Representation? The Case of Voting Age Reforms 📗 Political Behavior 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Very interesting findings! This is probably also something of interest for everybody on youthpolrep
Armin Schaefer@arminschaefer.bsky.social · 3y agoFor an unpublished manuscript, Claudia Landwehr and I surveyed German MPs to find out which groups they felt deserved to be represented. The differences between the parties are quite stark. From left to right, MPs become less supportive. 1/2
Very interesting new publication by Leonie Rettig and @lukasisermann.com on descriptive attributes as voting heuristics - specifically age and gender: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Just like me? Testing descriptive attributes as voting heuristics
The lack of candidate diversity and the descriptive under-representation of groups such as women and young people in parliaments is a recurring concer…
sciencedirect.com
We have just updated our bibliography to include recently published works :) Let us know if we missed something!
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 11mo agoWant to get an overview of research on #youthpolrep? We have started a 💥thematically sorted bibliography💥 on our website! Let us know, if there are publications still missing 🤗
NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)
Legislators talk less about the future as they age | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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📢 Publication Alert! I am excited to share that I published my paper on Substantive Youth Representation in German Politics. 📄 You can find my paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644008.2025.2584401 (1/7)
New publication on #substantive #youthpolrep in the German Bundestag by @robrentrop.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Do Young MPs Represent Young Voters? A Quantitative Text Analysis of Substantive Youth Representation in the Bundestag
Globally, parliaments are dominated by middle-aged lawmakers, leading to descriptive underrepresentation of young adults in national legislatures. Recent research has begun to analyse the causes of...
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Just a short reminder of our bibliography. Which works are still missing? 🤗
Youth Political Representation Research Network@youthpolrep.bsky.social · 11mo agoWant to get an overview of research on #youthpolrep? We have started a 💥thematically sorted bibliography💥 on our website! Let us know, if there are publications still missing 🤗
Call for Abstracts: Together with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, I'm editing a @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Issue on #YouthWings in #Europe! 🤓 We especially invite contributions focusing on countries in Central, Eastern & Southern Europe. Feel free to get in touch! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
New publication on the perceived substantive representation of younger generation in Italy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ghosted by politics? Young generations and the crisis of representation in Italy
This study investigates generational inequalities in perceived political representation in Italy. Drawing on original survey data (N = 1,004), we construct a Representation Index based on three sal...
tandfonline.com
@epsjournal.bsky.social has just published the articles of a special issue on "Political parties and youth’s political (under) representation", with an introduction by Daniel Stockemer (@uottawa.ca ) link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵
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How well are young people represented along the recruitment ladder? The pipeline problem for the Danish youth is within parties, since they are eager to stand for election and well represented at the parliamentary level. New article out in @ecpr.bsky.social's EPS. Open access: rdcu.be/eIiM1.
