Pulled in and pushed out of politics: the impact of neoliberalism on young people's differing political consumerist motivations in the UK and Greece

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Kyroglou, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-5544 and Henn, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1063-3544, 2020. Pulled in and pushed out of politics: the impact of neoliberalism on young people's differing political consumerist motivations in the UK and Greece. International Political Science Review. ISSN 0192-5121

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Abstract

Political consumerism refers to citizens’ use of boycotting and buycotting as they seek to influence political outcomes within the marketplace rather than through more traditional routes such as voting. However, given the pressure that neoliberalist forces exert on the marketplace, the lack of literature problematising the relationship between political consumerism and neoliberalism is somewhat surprising. Addressing this gap, we examine how neoliberalism impacts youth political consumerism in the UK and Greece. Focus-group findings suggest the existence of two inter-connected effects. Firstly, we detect a neoliberal ‘push effect’ away from electoral politics. Secondly, we discern a parallel ‘pull effect’ as young people seek the ‘political’ within the marketplace. In Greece, youth political consumerism seems to result primarily from distrust of institutional political actors. In contrast, young political consumers in the UK appear to be principally driven by confidence in the capacity of the market to respond to their pressing needs.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Political Science Review
Creators:	Kyroglou, G. and Henn, M.
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date:	6 August 2020
ISSN:	0192-5121
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/0192512120935521 DOI 1375226 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	09 Oct 2020 10:41
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:13
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/41224