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Volume :41 Issue : 3 2013
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Political Participation and the Public Sphere: A Field Study on a Sample of Kuwaiti Youth
Auther : Ali Alzuabi
The study addresses the level of participation of Kuwaiti Youth in political life and its relation to the public sphere. It primarily focuses on a number of important issues such as: the size of political participation of Kuwaiti youth and their motives, areas and patterns of political participation, characteristics of the public sphere in which the youth are involved, the overlap between the public and private spheres, and its influence on the political participation of Kuwaiti youth, as well as the social and cultural determinants of political participation in the Kuwaiti society. The study concludes that the public sphere, which the Kuwaiti youth are involved with, determines the nature of their political participation at large. In other words, it is the values, norms, and concepts generated by the public sphere that are reflected in the daily political thought and behavior of the Kuwaiti youth.
Keywords: Public sphere, Youth, Determinants of political participation, Kuwait