SOCIAL AND LEGAL DISCOURSE OF CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING IN POLAND AND RUSSIA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
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Keywords

children’s participation
children’s right
Convention on the Rights of the Child
decision-making
discourse analyses
‘new’ sociology of childhood

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Abstract

This article draws attention to online discourse of children’s participation in decision-making. The participation of children is located in one of the core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This study examines the right of the child to express his/her opinion and the participation of the child in matters affecting his/her interests. This paper aims to compare Poland and Russia results in the search process in the Google global search engine, level from 2004 to 2019 using Google Trends. We discover that there are connecting discourses among legal policies in Poland and Russia. There are also differences between clusters of arguments about existence of children’s rights in practice.

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https://doi.org/10.14746/sr.2020.4.1.05
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Funding

The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project № 19-011-00654.

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