Involving young people into social and political life as one of the factors of its consolidation in a border region (on the example of the Altai region)

Abstract

The paper focuses on the problem that an active part of young people leave the Altai border territory. The author believes that one of the most effective ways to retain this active part in the region is to involve them into politics. The article presents an analysis of elections to the Altai Regional Legislative Assembly in the period of 2004-2016. The data analyzed clearly demonstrates a tendency of increasing a number of young candidates. It is noted that not all parties consistently attract many young people as candidates. The author concludes that this is facilitated by changes in electoral legislation and the growing popularity of opposition parties, where the proportion of young people is always higher than in the “party of power”.