The purpose of this essay is to analyze the pension protests in France to explain the politicalparticipation and culture of the country characterized by manifestations, demonstrations andstrikes. The analysis of the pension protests is based on the perspective of the national tradeunions and student unions. With the explanation of the political participation and culture ageneral opinion behind the pensions protest could be interpreted. The material for the essay is thetrade- and student unions posts on their websites that either urges the people to protest or arguesagainst the pension reform. The theoretical framework for the essay is based on Russel J Dalton’s(2020) theory for political participation and Thomas Denk’s (2009) theoretical compilation aboutpolitical culture. This essay is a case study of the pension protest in France 2023. With aninterpreter oriented strategy the analysis is based on an explanatory idea analysis of the tradeandstudent unions posts. Previous research has shown that political participation and politicalculture affect each other. It has also been proven that low participation in conventional forms forexample electoral participation is affected by political dissatisfaction, distrust of voting andpolitical interest. In this study the analysis shows that the pension protest in France is a politicalparticipation that expresses a political dissatisfaction and a political alienation. The analysis alsoreaches the conclusion that political participation in the pension protests follows the modernpatterns of protests and that the trade unions pension movement has a big support from thefrench population. In the analysis of the political culture the conclusion is that from the tradeunions perspective the French political system is illegitimate and that their political roles are nottaken seriously by the French government. The results of the essay are important because it cangive a new perspective on political participation in France and it can serve as a contribution toresearch about the connection between political participation and political culture.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-213521 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Karlborg, Célia |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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