Español Mexican youth are facing a new recessionary trend in democracy

Abstract

This research paper focuses on analyzing the recessionary trend of democracy in young Mexicans; it is assumed that, when economic activity recedes, not only a perception of economic but democratic stagnation is generated in society that is expressed in the levels of abstinence of young people to participate in the democratic life of their country. This study seeks to determine, through a representative sample of 400 young people surveyed, corresponding to 12 thousand 884 18-23-year-old voters from the population capital, belonging to the 12th electoral district in Mexico, whether they show a recessionary trend of their political participation. The relevance of the research is that the City of Puebla, capital of the State of Puebla located in the center of the Mexican Republic, is one of the cities with the highest concentration of higher education institutions - public and private - of Mexico, by 2020, according to the Federal Ministry of Public Education, in Puebla operate 343 universities, placing the entity as the second at the national level with more institutions of this level of education (SEP, 2020). In addition to the above, the poblana entity receives students from different federative entities of the country, so it is possible to affirm that the results presented here are representative of the observable behaviors in the Mexican youth versus democracy as a way of life.