@article{Perälä_2018, title={Hallitsemattomia ”hallittuja sukupolvenvaihdoksia”: poliittisten nuoriso- ja opiskelijajärjestöjen rooli poliittisessa rekrytoinnissa keskustassa, kokoomuksessa ja SDP:ssä 1970–2015}, volume={60}, url={https://journal.fi/politiikka/article/view/76324}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Uncontrolled ‘controlled generational transitions’: The role of political youth and student organizations in political recruitment </strong><strong>for the Centre Party, the NCP and the SDP, 1970–2015</strong></p> <p>Political youth and student organizations have seldom been the interest of recruitment studies,<br>although a handful of studies suggest that these organizations provide their members with several<br>political resources that are useful for recruitment. This article evaluates whether political youth and<br>student organizations form their own recruitment pools for the future members of parliament (MP)<br>in Finland and whether the career paths of former youth organization members differ from nonmembers.<br>The results show that political youth and student organizations do form a significant<br>recruitment pool for MPs, as a quarter of all MPs can be described as being former youth activists.<br>Compared to other MPs, the former youth activists have a lot of pre-parliamentary political experience<br>and many of them have received a lot of help from their peers and older party members along<br>their career paths.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Politiikka}, author={Perälä, Annu}, year={2018}, month={marras}, pages={208–227} }