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In the countries where democracy is adopted and internalized, the adoption of a participatory understanding of governance is an important need for the people to be involved in local and national decision-making processes through different mechanisms. The active participation of citizens in the political and administrative decision-making process through different mechanisms, primarily elections, can be regarded as an elementary situation for the implementation of participating democracy. In the implementation of democratic participation, different sections of society are expected to take an active role. One of the main actors that plays a role in the implementation of participating democracy ideas is the youth. The referendum held in Turkey in 2017 has reduced the elected age from twenty-five to eighteen, preparing the ground for young people to participate actively in the political decision-making process. The referendum held in 2017 also led to a change in the government system in Turkey. The parliamentary system replaced the presidency with the government system. One of the most important reflections of the transition to the Government System of the Presidency is the opening of the front of the presidential, general elections and local elections for the establishment of inter-party political alliance. The main issue of the study, based on the question of how the political alliance affects the voters, is the determination of the views of young voters towards the political alliance. In the research, the quantial research methods used the scan (survey) design, while the survey technique was used as a data collection tool. The findings and findings that will be revealed in the results of the research conducted towards the students of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University can be classified as follows. The first conclusion of the study is that the vast majority of students have declared that in the election period the alliances formed an important agenda in terms of written and visual media; both the written and visual media and the social media are effective in promoting the speech, candidates and projects of the parties in the alliance. It is a remarkable finding that about 70 percent of young voters who participated in the survey on both the political parties’ election coalition and which coalitions are held between the parties are aware of. Another conclusion of the study is that the participating students consider the most important element of the "party ideology" (40,7 percent) among the elements they consider important when voting for a political party. When the influence of the factors that direct students to vote in the elections is examined, it is important to note that the majority of students have stated that they have voted because they could be effective in the future of the country.

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