Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) Dataset

2026/02/03 by Duncan McDonnell, Sofia Ammassari, Marco Valbruzzi +5 · 1 voice

paper · doi:10.7910/dvn/nke1ih

openalex publication_date 2026/02/03 · openalex created_date 2026/02/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01

Abstract

This dataset contains the full Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) - the largest comparative survey of political party youth wing members to date. It includes responses from over 5,000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in six countries (Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden). The dataset covers members' biographies, reasons for joining the youth wing and reasons for staying in it.

Discussions

• This is our sixth article from the YOUMEM project. The YOUMEM dataset is now publicly available: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... Co-authors: @duncanmcdonnell.com @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @profannikawerner [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]

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