{"id":{"repo_id":"vilnius","oai_identifier":"oai:vu.lt:elaba:35558527"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/vilnius/oai:vu.lt:elaba:35558527","repository":{"repo_id":"vilnius","name":"Vilnius University","base_url":"https://epublications.vu.lt/oai"},"display":{"title":"Jaunimo partinių preferencijų logika: ar egzistuoja politinės skirtys? /","abstract":"Youth Party Preference Logic: the Existence of Political Cleavages? Past decades, Communist and anti-communist cleavage was a dominant factor to explain the preferences of Lithuanian voters. In 2012, however, post-election poll revealed interesting results. A new determinant proved itself to be valuable in elections, namely, the age of voters. The survey suggests that it is likely that the younger generation of Lithuania votes differently than the older generation. Young generation have not seen the formation of party system in Lithuania and have no opinion on soviet past. This discovery opens up a new field for broader examinations about the young generation’s politic preferences. The aims of the research are to reveal what determines the politic preferences of the young generation and to confirm the existence of essential politic cleavage that regulates politic choices. The generation born in 1990s and later is the object of the research. Informants have to be able to vote in the parliament election of 2016. Thus, they must have eighteen years old. In this BA paper the difference between the younger and the older generations’ politic preferences is explored. What determines the logic of the young generation when they need to choose between politicians? Have the fundamental divergence, ruling the old generation’s politic choices, made an impact to the choices of young generation? Do crucial cleavages really exist? Should we maybe talk about fundamentally different logic of the young generation when it comes to choosing the political parties? If the answer is yes, what are its characteristics? The tasks established in the research: 1. To define the notion ‘cleavage’. To pick and provide reasoning for the definition of ‘cleavage’ that will be used in the analysis. 2. To discuss important politic cleavages those occur in West Europe and post-communist countries. 3. To reveal which cleavages are noticeable in the youth segment. 4. To prove if the revealed cleavages have an impact on youth political decision making. 5. To disclose the additional factors revealed after the qualitative research. For the analysis, the qualitative strategy was applied. Semi-structured interview is used. The research reveals that the communist and anti-communist cleavage is not reproduced among the young generation. The reason for that is influenced by the fact that the representatives of this generation did not live in soviet times and have no personal experience of such regime. They tend to judge the soviet times only from the perspectives of education and socialisation processes. No emotional burden on them makes the young generation to assess those times neutrally. The restricted relationships between the generations also play a significant role. The restrictiveness of these relationship present itself in the newly discovered cleavage, namely, the new generation vs. the old generation, or the new times and their representatives vs. the old times and their representatives. It was noticed that youth tend to think in terms ‘we’ and ‘they’, where the youth is assigned to the representatives of the new generation and their parents, already, to the old generation. Additional determinants like the image of leaders and certain personalities, anti-populism, accuracy and reliability are distinguished. It is important to mark that the young generation tends to assess the parties through their personal experiences; sometimes they vote because of their personal interests or even randomly. In the future research it is recommended to pay more attention to the analysis of the young generation (for example to apply the quantitative method). This research can be used as a foundation for adding factors like the importance of the leaders, the question of populism, and the reliability of politic candidates to the verification of the logic of preferences voters demonstrate during election period.","abstract_html":"Youth Party Preference Logic: the Existence of Political Cleavages? Past decades, Communist and anti-communist cleavage was a dominant factor to explain the preferences of Lithuanian voters. In 2012, however, post-election poll revealed interesting results. A new determinant proved itself to be valuable in elections, namely, the age of voters. The survey suggests that it is likely that the younger generation of Lithuania votes differently than the older generation. Young generation have not seen the formation of party system in Lithuania and have no opinion on soviet past. This discovery opens up a new field for broader examinations about the young generation’s politic preferences. The aims of the research are to reveal what determines the politic preferences of the young generation and to confirm the existence of essential politic cleavage that regulates politic choices. The generation born in 1990s and later is the object of the research. Informants have to be able to vote in the parliament election of 2016. Thus, they must have eighteen years old. In this BA paper the difference between the younger and the older generations’ politic preferences is explored. What determines the logic of the young generation when they need to choose between politicians? Have the fundamental divergence, ruling the old generation’s politic choices, made an impact to the choices of young generation? Do crucial cleavages really exist? Should we maybe talk about fundamentally different logic of the young generation when it comes to choosing the political parties? If the answer is yes, what are its characteristics? The tasks established in the research: 1. To define the notion ‘cleavage’. To pick and provide reasoning for the definition of ‘cleavage’ that will be used in the analysis. 2. To discuss important politic cleavages those occur in West Europe and post-communist countries. 3. To reveal which cleavages are noticeable in the youth segment. 4. To prove if the revealed cleavages have an impact on youth political decision making. 5. To disclose the additional factors revealed after the qualitative research. For the analysis, the qualitative strategy was applied. Semi-structured interview is used. The research reveals that the communist and anti-communist cleavage is not reproduced among the young generation. The reason for that is influenced by the fact that the representatives of this generation did not live in soviet times and have no personal experience of such regime. They tend to judge the soviet times only from the perspectives of education and socialisation processes. No emotional burden on them makes the young generation to assess those times neutrally. The restricted relationships between the generations also play a significant role. The restrictiveness of these relationship present itself in the newly discovered cleavage, namely, the new generation vs. the old generation, or the new times and their representatives vs. the old times and their representatives. It was noticed that youth tend to think in terms ‘we’ and ‘they’, where the youth is assigned to the representatives of the new generation and their parents, already, to the old generation. Additional determinants like the image of leaders and certain personalities, anti-populism, accuracy and reliability are distinguished. It is important to mark that the young generation tends to assess the parties through their personal experiences; sometimes they vote because of their personal interests or even randomly. In the future research it is recommended to pay more attention to the analysis of the young generation (for example to apply the quantitative method). 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