«Наша задача — завлечь как можно больше молодежи просто для того, чтобы занять ее время»: модели развития ниш агентности субъектов молодежной политики в регионах Северо-Запада России

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2025. № 1(185). С. 83–106.

Lisovskaya I., Andreeva A. S., Chernysheva N.

The article focuses on models developing the niches of agency used by subjects of youth policy to address issues of youth well-being in the regions of North-West Russia. Considering the debate about youth well-being in general and specifically in the Arctic regions, the authors use the niche of agency approach, according to which power structures of the Northern regions can widen the share of agency when the view of the subject from the inside diverges from the centre’s concept of regional development. The empirical material is presented by 65 interviews with experts from experts from six cities of the Northwestern Federal District (Kaliningrad, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk, Murmansk, Syktyvkar): representatives of the power structures of regional governments, education system, tourism, business, regional employers, and youth movements. The authors identify 3 models of developing niches of agency deployed by subjects of youth policy in order to maintain and develop youth well-being. The specifics of activist, staff, and parent model is determined by the location of the judgments of youth policy agents along the tension vectors reflecting the agents’ ideas about youth and the process of implementing youth policy.

Keywords: молодежь, Северо-Западный регион, youth, государственная молодежная политика, ontological security, онтологическая безопасность, youth policy, youth well-being, niche of agency, North-West of Russia, молодежное благополучие, ниша агентности