The structure of the electoral preferences of students: experience of sociological research

This article analyzes the structural characteristics of the political behavior of students in the municipal elections in Russia. As an empirical base of research used data from a sociological survey of students in Chelyabinsk, devoted to the election of the Head of the municipality. To study the sociological data, the authors used the methods of frequency analysis, as well as methods for calculating chi-squared statistic for testing the level of significance of differences between groups of voters. The study identified the following set of structural characteristics of the electoral behavior of students at local elections. As a result, authors marked (1) electoral passivity and (2) electoral conformism as the main structural features of the political behavior of students in the municipal elections in modern russia.