<p>Abstract</p><p>C-essay in political science by Anna Bryntesson</p><p>Supervisor: Michele Micheletti</p><p>Spring 2006</p><p>“Young municipality politicians - Why some young people become municipality politicians, how they think it is and</p><p>what they think should be done to engage more young people in politics?”</p><p>The Swedish municipalities have problem with that they doesen´t have many politicians under 30 years. Many of the young people who become politicians drop out after a short while. The conclusion of this is that the Swedish municipalities have problems to engage young people in politics.</p><p>The purpose of this essay is to study and try to find out what young people think about politics? This is done with personally interviews with 7 young municipality politicians from the municipality of Eda.</p><p>The specific research questions are:</p><p>• Who are they which became young municipality politicians?</p><p>• What was the reason that they became politicians?</p><p>• How do they look at municipality politics?</p><p>• Which roll and function does the young people have as a municipality politician?</p><p>• What do they think should be done to get more young people to engaged in politics and become a municipality politician?</p><p>The young Eda politician is a girl living in a house in the country and she has middle education. Many of the young politicians in Eda has become politicians because their parents has asked them if the want to be a politician. They think that politics is hard but fun. Their roll is to look at think in a new way. Politicians need to go to schools and tell the kids in school what they do a a politician to try to make young people more intrested in politics. The teory that is more usually that men is engaged in politics than womans isn´t right in Eda. Because there among the young peolpe more womans than men are engaged.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:kau-169 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Bryntesson, Anna |
| Publisher | Karlstad University, Karlstad University |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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