Want 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 🤗

Want 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 🤗

Dear #youthpolrep colleagues and friends, I’m excited to invite you to my thesis defence - online or in person at EUI! 🎓✨ Endless thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social and Aksel Sundström for guiding me to the PhD finish line 🥳 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

New piece on age-based differences in MPs' representation styles by @dienerjulius.bsky.social!

🚨New Publication🚨 Interesting piece on why a legislator’s age matters: @wigginton.ca re-conceptualizes youth representation in @repjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #youthpolrep

This week the GLOBAL YOUTH PARTICIPATION INDEX went online. It's a great resource mot only for research on participation, but also for looking into representation! gypi.epd.eu

The upcoming conference of the @sgparliaments.bsky.social in Barcelona will also feature a panel focusing on young parliamentarians! Come by if you are around :) #sgop25

This week the GLOBAL YOUTH PARTICIPATION INDEX went online. It's a great resource mot only for research on participation, but also for looking into representation! gypi.epd.eu

Super interesting new article on the role of youth wings in representing youth in Portugal by Carlos Jalali, Patrícia Silva & Edna Costa! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A perfect match! Entitled “Reinventing Democracy for the 21st Century”, the 4th Global Conference on Parliamentary Studies today takes place in the cradle of democracy. 🇬🇷 Happy to present work with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @hallehellmann.bsky.social on youth representation. #youthpolrep

Super interesting new article on the role of youth wings in representing youth in Portugal by Carlos Jalali, Patrícia Silva & Edna Costa! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Only ~25% of leaders around the world used to be over 60. Today it is more than half of them.

The Democratic Party’s age problem isn’t just bad, it’s much worse than Republicans’. Half of registered Democratic voters are under 50, yet half their senators are over 67. Despite claiming to represent the future, party leadership systematically blocks younger voices from gaining power.

**NEWS from the Network** We have now also set up a website for YPRRN and while many things are still missing, you can already find a categorized bibliography on youth political representation! youthpoliticalrep.wixsite.com/youth-politi... Please let us know which works are still missing! 🤗

**NEWS from the Network** We have now also set up a website for YPRRN and while many things are still missing, you can already find a categorized bibliography on youth political representation! youthpoliticalrep.wixsite.com/youth-politi... Please let us know which works are still missing! 🤗

**NEWS from the Network** Our book project is now entering the final phase - we have started formatting and we have a title! ⭐YOUTH POLITICAL REPRESENTATION - A Global Perspective on Young Adults’ Presence in Political Institutions⭐ To be published in this series: link.springer.com/series/15478

**NEWS from the Network** Our book project is now entering the final phase - we have started formatting and we have a title! ⭐YOUTH POLITICAL REPRESENTATION - A Global Perspective on Young Adults’ Presence in Political Institutions⭐ To be published in this series: link.springer.com/series/15478

The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) is searching: 💥Consultancy on data gathering and report drafting on youth participation in parliament💥 Application deadline: 14th of April 2025 More info: www.ipu.org/work-with-ip...

Very pleased to see my name in EJPR for the first time—especially alongside scholars whose work I have been reading for years. Thank you for this! 🥳

Very interesting and important piece on how youth's descriptive representation impacts turnout by @bcastanho.bsky.social ! #youthpolrep

"Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings?" by @henrikseeberg.bsky.social is one of the recent works I’ve most enjoyed reading, and it’s now available at @thejop.bsky.social!

Very interesting paper by Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & @chriswratil.bsky.social on the demand side of representation with strong implications for research on #youthpolrep

Our article "Inside Party Youth Wings: The YOUMEM Project" is online today & open access in Party Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... [A wee thread 🧵]

New publication on age-related representation preferences of different age groups by @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, @wurthmann.bsky.social & @martingross.bsky.social #youthpolrep #Germany

In addition to the #youthpolitics starter pack that encompassed mostly academics from #polisci, there is now also this great collection of academics in #youthstudies ! Thank you Ben :)

And another exiting new publication on #youthpolrep! This time from Pankaj Kumar Patel and TV Sekher on the discrepancy between population age and the age in the Indian national parliament, the Lok Sabha: www.iipsindia.ac.in/sites/defaul...

New Publication presenting a dataset on age representation in cabinets by Daniel Stockemer & Kamila Kolodziejczyk: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As it seems as if the move away from X is finally happening, here's a link to a related starter pack:

New publication on party-level factors influencing youth representation:

Super ineresting piece by @cmcclean.bsky.social !

You have expertise on an AFRICAN or ASIAN country as well as on YOUTH POLITICAL REPRESENTATION? Then this call from two of our network members (@kirareneekurz.bsky.social and @britanlar.bsky.social) might be of interest for you!

In one week we will hold a virtual gathering of the network - feel free to reach out if you are interested in participating!

*** Virtual Gathering of the Network*** => all previously engaged and newly engaged colleagues are invited =>November 15, 2023, at 16.00h CET 🧵1/5

CfP for a workshop on GENERATIONAL POLITICS at the Nordic PSA's conference in Bergen (Norway)! Organized by @janabelschner.bsky.social & Josefina Sipinen You can find all the info on nopsa2024.no

New dataset to be released: descriptive age representation on the party-level.

Hi! We have finally created a profile here as well and hope that you will share this profile with others who might be interested in youth's political representation! We will soon host a virtual get-together for everyone interested, so keep your eyes open :) polisky youthpolrep