ABSTRACT
The social, political, economic, and demographic characteristics of democratic, European-oriented Estonian society provide a context in which the research question was evoked – how do Estonian young adults construct their citizenship behaviour and perceive the democracy indicators? This was the question guiding the descriptive research reported among Estonian (N=384) university students aged 18–30 years old and will provide the context against which the research results can be understood and interpreted. Estonian respondents generally perceived stabile general status of democracy in their country and were largely focused on semi-active (loyalty to laws and rules) and passive (national identity and patriotism) citizenship activities but were reluctant to engage in political or conventional citizenship activities with predominance of being more personally oriented, which highlights the importance of a social action approach to the citizenship across different educational and social contexts.
