Preferencje wyborcze studentów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Piskorek, Magdalena; Cegiełko, Stefan

Preferencje wyborcze studentów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Abstract

W artykule przedstawiono wyniki projektu badawczego Koła Naukowego Geografii Politycznej i Geopolityki „POLIGEOS”, którego celem było zbadanie preferencji wyborczych studentów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, a także określenie ich poglądów na linii lewicaprawica w kwestiach gospodarczych oraz w kwestiach światopoglądowych. Wyniki zostały zestawione z wynikami innych badań przeprowadzonych w podobnym czasie wśród grup młodzieży. Badanie pokazało, że Uniwersytet Warszawski jest jednostką zróżnicowaną pod względem poglądów politycznych studentów. Różnorodność tematów podejmowanych na poszczególnych wydziałach przekłada się na zróżnicowane podejście do kwestii gospodarczych i obyczajowych młodzieży uniwersyteckiej.

The article is a result of a research that was performed at the University of Warsaw from March 2015 till November 2015. It was an election period in Poland (presidential elections were held in May 2015 and parliamentary elections in October 2015). The research project was performed by POLIGEOS – Students Research Group in Political Geography and Geopolitics. The primary objective of the study was to collect data about political preferences of students and to determine the political, economic and ideological views represented by students of each faculty of the University. The results of the project have shown that voter turnout is much higher among students than on the total who are entitled to vote in Poland. The second conclusion is that the composition of the new parliament would be different if the only voters were students. Another interesting observation is that students not always vote for the parties that they identify themselves. Another research’s focus were students’ views. In general, students are quite equally divided between the Right (40%) and the Left (32%). 16,6% represent the central views. In economic and ideological views differences are more noticeable. In both of these realms dominate liberal views. Basing on questionnaires survey we can also argue that Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, Faculty of Geology, Faculty of History and Faculty of Physics are the right-wing faculties while Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Faculty of Psychology, Faculty of Oriental Studies and Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation are the left-wing faculties. Liberal views on economy are represented by Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Faculty of Law and Administration, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Faculty of Journalism and Political Science. The state interventions in the economy are more popular among students of Faculty of Biology, Faculty of History and Faculty of Oriental Studies. Ideologically the most liberal are students of Faculty of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation. On the other hand the most conservative are the students of Faculty of History and Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies. Women more often have left-wing or central views while men rather right-wing. In economy women do not have extreme views. They choose mixed economy while men clearly choose liberal economy. Ideologically women are more liberal while men on an equal footing place the liberal, conservatives and the moderate views.