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JOURNAL OF YOUTH RESEARCHES
A Research About the Youngs’
Voting Behavior in Local Elections:
The Case of 2009, Ankara
Metropolitan Municipality Election
Copyright © 2017
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Youth and Sports
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Journal of Youth Researches • July 2017 • 5(12) • 69-88
ISSN 2147-8473
Received
| 05 April 2017
Accepted
| 19 June 2017
* Assoc.Prof., Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Political Science and Public Administration, Ankara,
** Research Assistant, Necmettin Erbakan University, Political Science and Public Administration, Konya,
Niyazi Karabulut
**
Murat Önder
*
Abstract
Elections are one of the most popular issues in the social agenda. Local elections in particular in-
clude elements that directly affect the lives of people rather than the country’s agenda. The percep-
tions and concerns of the young people about the governance of the near-life environment where
they can encounter to the polital life through local elections is very important. In particular, the level
of political participation of young people worldwide is around 30 out of 100. This makes it necessary
to study on the reluctance of young people on political participation. In this study, voting behaviors
of young people in local elections were evaluated on the basis of previously collected data. Our
analysis is expected to further the research about the topic and create the possibility of comparison
with the future studies.
Keywords:
Young Voting Behaviors, Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Election, Local Elections
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