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Social Network Analysis of Youth Political Organizations of Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai Krai
Vol. 21 (2020) No. 1, Political Institutions and Processes
Vol. 21 (2020) No. 1
Political Institutions and Processes

Social Network Analysis of Youth Political Organizations of Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai Krai

Kazantsev D.A.
Altai State University
ORCID ID 0000-0001-7287-6413
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Altai State University
ORCID ID 0000-0003-1095-4038
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https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-21-1-64-85
https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-21-1-64-85

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Kazantsev D.A., Асеев С.Ю. (2020) Social Network Analysis of Youth Political Organizations of Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai Krai. South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences, 21 (1), pp. 64-85. DOI: 10.31429/26190567-21-1-64-85 (In Russian)
Submission Date 2019-11-20
Accepted Date 2019-12-24
Published Date 2020-03-30

Copyright (c) 2020 Дмитрий Анатольевич Казанцев, Сергей Юрьевич Асеев

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Abstract

The article deals with social relations inside and between political youth organizations of Novosibirsk oblast and Altai krai. The authors use the social network analysis to get insight of the consistent pattern of social relations between youth organizations of political party type. The objective of this study is, on basis of social media, to find the consistency, special features, similarities and differences in social relations structure inside and between political youth organizations of Novosibirsk oblast and Altai krai as the more urbanized and less urbanized Russian Federation states accordingly. First, the authors analyze the structure of relations inside the largest regional political youth organizations. Second, using the results, they perform the clusterization of groups inside online communities based on the number of contacts and the key points. Third, the authors study the interregional relations of political youth organizations inside one ideological speciality. The final step is dedicated to studying the relations between all organizations in two mentioned regions. Social network analysis of youth political organizations shown that the sphere of political youth organizations can be described as the political market, where the three strategies of playing are applied. The strategies are recession, protest and loyaty. Moreover, the members of political youth organizations make acquaintances and keep in touch with the members of other movements representing different ideologies, including with other regions. However, due to the long history and certain ideological quaities needed for membership, some organizations create the echo-chambers and gain extreme loyalty among their members, which makes it difficult for people to leave these organizations.

Keywords

social network, political youth organizations, social relations, clusters, network structures

Acknowledgements

This article is a result of the study supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-011-01184 “The Potential of Youth Political Leadership in Processes of Political Socialization of Youth and in Circulation of Elites in Russian regions in 2010 (based on data from regions of South-­West Siberia and the North-­West of the Russian Federation)”.

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