DELIBERATION AS A FACTOR OF RADICALIZATION OF YOUTH POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR
Abstract
It order to identify the causes of radical political behaviour of young people it is needed to clarify how it relates to group belonging of a young person. It becomes possible if to study political behaviour in its connection with those values, ideological beliefs, attitudes which are common to the group of one’s belonging. On the basis of theoretical analysis it is determined that communication in the group, or rather deliberation (M. Steenbergen), is one of the main socio-psychological factors that affects youth political behaviour. It is concluded that the effect of deliberation is so strong due being composed of both interpersonal processes of exchanging thoughts and arguments, and internal processes of reflection based on these arguments. It is found that in those groups where young people come together around some similar vision of political issues, the phenomenon of group thinking resulting in polarization and amplification of cognitive errors occurs. It is concluded that after deliberation among like-minded others, young people became more confident about their views and deliberation fuelled greater radicalism of thoughts and behaviour
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