Youth movements and public youth policies in Mexico: a conceptual approach

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Juan Antonio Taguenca Belmonte

Abstract

During the last years, they have emerged new forms of youth political participation in Mexico. However, youth public policies continue to address the problems of youth without their participation and in a deficient manner. The main objective of the article is to draw a conceptual and empirical framework that allows thinking about public youth policies from and for the young Mexicans themselves. The methodology is the documentary analysis and the hermeneutic of social processes that young Mexicans are involved in in the fields of political participation in recent years, crossing it with the analysis of the response of the administrations in the form of youth policies. The results are the emergence of a more participatory youth, which, however, does not yet show great changes in its political culture at the aggregate level and which coexists with the persistence of youth public policies of previous periods. The conclusion is that moving towards participatory youth public policies is an important objective for the democratization and greater efficiency of attention to young people.

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