No crisis but a paradigm shift? German youth policy between continuity and change

Meuth, Miriam; Warth, Annegret; Walther, Andreas

doi:10.1080/02673843.2013.813860

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“…The growing influence of activating welfare as a national trend nevertheless has altered local youth policies in both cases in a way to focus on the self-responsibility of young people, running the risk of concealing all structural causes in a neoliberal ideology of the self-responsible individual (Lopez Blasco et al, 2003;Castel & Duvoux, 2013;Loncle, 2013;Meuth et al, 2014). Local youth policies, are dealing with these positionings of young people without adopting a clear integrated approach, as they still are highly fragmented, both decentralized and devolved, split between a large number of public actors (cf.…”

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“…When it comes to funding, there is a notable shift of resources from youth work into youth social work, especially school social work. An analysis of the current political and practical development reveals that the available resources are less invested in spontaneous and open offers (for example, open youth work), but in problem-, school-, and labour market-orientated offers respectively youth work is exploited for school and labour market (Walther, 2014;Schwanenflügel & Walther 2015).…”

Section: Youth Policy Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Local Youth Policies between National Frameworks and Local Peculiarities: Examples from Two European Cities

Pohl

Cuconato

2021

Youth Glob.

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There are ongoing debates in youth research and politics about the impact of European and national youth policies on the local level. Based on the qualitative findings collected in the framework of the European Project partispace, this paper aims at analyzing whether and to what extent current local youth policies relates to national and European policies. Attempting to answer this question, it presents some empirical findings from a study on youth policies in two European cities: Bologna and Frankfurt. Before the reconstruction of the historically grown links between the local and the national youth policies, first the structures of current youth policies are analysed. After this, the results of expert interviews, focus groups with young people from a variety of youth scenes are presented to enlighten how youth policies work in these two urban contexts. It shows that they are linked to national policies in very different constellations with very different outcomes on the level of how they are perceived and taken up by the young people.

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Section: Youth Policy Structuresmentioning

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Local Youth Policies between National Frameworks and Local Peculiarities: Examples from Two European Cities

Pohl

Cuconato

2021

Youth Glob.

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“…Additionally, youth welfare has been marked by a shift towards activation coinciding with a prioritized focus on childhood and school-related support services in recent years. Young people are addressed primarily as students which affects youth work inasmuch as it narrows its scope for participation (Meuth et al, 2014). Under the surface of a discourse of ‘youth-as-a-resource’ representations of ‘youth-as-a-problem’ prevail.…”

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Regimes of Youth Participation? Comparative Analysis of Youth Policies and Participation across European Cities

Walther

Lüküslü

Loncle

et al. 2020

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This article problematizes the assumption that national policies have a direct impact on youth participation at the local level and analyses the relationships between local forms of youth participation and local and national policies. Relying on data from a EU project funded under the HORIZON 2020 programme, the article focuses on formally institutionalized settings of youth participation and elaborates local constellations of youth participation in six European cities. These constellations may be referred to as regimes of youth participation as they reflect wider structures of power and knowledge that influence the way in which young people’s practices in public spaces and their claims of being part of society are recognized. However, the analysis reveals that rather deducing it from the model of welfare regimes, such a typology needs to be developed starting from the local level and should consider the ways in which different relationships between local youth policies and national welfare states affect youth participation.

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“…The subnational or regional dimension is also neglected when it comes to comparative research and youth-related political claims making, as most are either cross-national focusing on the socioeconomic conditions of youth (Andreotti & Mingione, 2016; Chevalier, 2016; Schmidt et al, 2017; Wallace & Bendit, 2009), or are nationally based (Gomółka, 2019, Meuth, Warth, & Walther, 2014; Petmesidou & Polyzoidis, 2015; Pickard, 2014; Schildt & Siegfried, 2016). This neglect is all the more important since other research on “weak” and vulnerable groups—like migrants or the unemployed—has shown that such groups are especially able to act and to make use of the subnational level (Cinalli & Giugni, 2010, 2011).…”

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The Spatial Scope of Youth-Related Claims Making in Nine European Countries

Paschou

Kousis

Cinalli

et al. 2019

American Behavioral Scientist

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This comparative examination sheds light on the spatial scope of actors making youth-related claims in mainstream media. Drawing on the “political opportunity structure” approach, our main argument is that the spatial scope of political debates on youth-related issues are driven by institutional arrangements reflecting windows of opportunities for the representation of various youth interests. Methodologically, we draw on “claim-making” analysis of five newspapers for each of the nine countries of the EURYKA project, that is, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Our cross-national exploratory analysis aims to show, (a) how state configuration and youth regime contexts impact on the spatial scope of youth and nonyouth actors, and furthermore, on specific state, civil society, and interest group actors, as well as (b) whether this leads to a new clustering of countries across spatial divides in the age of youth precarity. Cross-national variation is especially considered by looking at how institutional arrangements vary in each country, based on their youth policy regimes, the specific state structure and the impact of recent economic crisis on youth welfare policies.

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No crisis but a paradigm shift? German youth policy between continuity and change

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Local Youth Policies between National Frameworks and Local Peculiarities: Examples from Two European Cities

Local Youth Policies between National Frameworks and Local Peculiarities: Examples from Two European Cities

Regimes of Youth Participation? Comparative Analysis of Youth Policies and Participation across European Cities

The Spatial Scope of Youth-Related Claims Making in Nine European Countries

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