Youth Political Leadership in Institutional Dimension: Shaping Environment and Development Features
https://doi.org/10.24412/2070-1381-2023-98-123-137
Abstract
Youth political leadership at the present stage is an emerging social and political phenomenon. Leaders who begin to acquire professional competencies and experience in the sphere of youth policy subsequently continue their careers in public policy and public administration. This article presents the results of a study of the shaping environment and development features of youth political leadership in modern Russia. The research methodology is based on an institutional approach. In the course of the study, the concepts of institute and institutional environment concepts are considered, an institutional analysis of the environment of formation of youth political leaders existing in our country is carried out, a pool of youth policy institutions is formed, their typologization is implemented. The proposed typology is based on a complex criterion that includes the essence, functions, structural and organizational characteristics of the considered institutions. The study indicates that the institutional environment of Russian youth policy is heterogeneous, the qualitative and quantitative differences between youth policy institutions in modern Russia are essential, the development of these institutions is uneven. Besides, the study reveals that effectiveness of youth leadership potential development in the space of youth policy is largely determined by the content and organizational specifics of youth policy institutions’ activities, the quality of relations in youth organizations, the characteristics of the projects, programs and events implemented by them. Through such activities, young people acquire leadership qualities and supra-professional competencies, expand their social capital, become youth leaders, thereby gaining legitimacy to be professionally integrated into the political sphere and thus becoming youth political leaders.
About the Authors
A. V. Selezneva
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Antonina V. Selezneva, DSc (Political Science), Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science
Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Kh. Tomaev
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Azamat Kh. Tomaev, Postgraduate student, Faculty of Political Science
Moscow, Russian Federation
A. A. Khatkevich
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexandra A. Khatkevich, Master’ degree student, Faculty of Political Science
Moscow, Russian Federation
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Selezneva A.V., Tomaev A.Kh., Khatkevich A.A. Youth Political Leadership in Institutional Dimension: Shaping Environment and Development Features. Public Administration. E-journal (Russia). 2023;(98):123-137. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24412/2070-1381-2023-98-123-137
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