Family Traditions, Political Periods, and the Development of Partisan Orientations

Beck, Paul; Jennings, M. Kent

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“…Research has shown IG influences at work in many spheres, such as achievement orientation, religious values, political affiliation, and gender and racial attitudes (e.g., Beck and Jennings 1991;Whitbeck and Gecas 1988). Of special interest is evidence indicating that 'explanatory style' (optimistic or pessimistic) is transferred intergenerationally from mothers to their children (Seligman 2006).…”

Section: Intergenerational Transfermentioning

confidence: 99%

All in the Family? Parental Roles in the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

2016

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Childhood obesity is a serious global health challenge. Families and consumption are at the nexus of the problem, as childhood weight issues depend significantly on family-related influences (genetic predispositions, physical activities, and household food consumption practices). This article focuses on how a family socializes a child toward or away from obesity. It advances a family consumer socialization framework to characterize key elements and processes.Biological predispositions, parent/family inputs, elements of child development, parent-child interactions, and intergenerational transfer are all major contributors to weight status and life course potentials. Time is also a crucial component, here represented in two forms --linear and cyclical. Drawing on extensive research from other disciplines and related consumer research, five "Foundational Properties" are distilled, representing fundamental tenets underpinning the family's role in this problem. Each property is then used to chart promising opportunities for consumer researchers and others interested in advancing knowledge on this pressing concern.

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Section: Intergenerational Transfermentioning

confidence: 99%

All in the Family? Parental Roles in the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

2016

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“…It has mostly focused on mainstream parties in relatively stable political environments and has been criticized for not being able to explain processes of change (Greenstein, 1970;Sapiro, 2004;Wass, 2007). The critique is directed towards the research that sees children as being more or less direct recipients or inheritors of parental political traits (Beck and Jennings, 1991). In addition to the fact that children may observe and copy their parents' norms and behaviour, they may also be influenced by age-peers, age-graded institutions such as the school and socio-historical events (Bengtson, 1975).…”

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confidence: 99%

Young people, parents and radical right voting. The Case of the Swiss People’s Party

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Voorpostel

2010

Electoral Studies

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a b s t r a c tIt is commonly found that young people tend to adopt the political party choice of their parents. However, far less is known about the applicability of this theory when investigating radical right support. Using the Swiss Household panel data (1999e2007), this study empirically identifies the relationship between parents' preference for the Swiss radical right party SVP and their attitudes toward immigrants and the EU, and their offspring's preference for the SVP. Disaggregating fathers' and mothers' influence reveals that in particular, mothers' SVP support plays a role in SVP support among young people, even after controlling for educational similarities. We also demonstrate that girls are more likely to be influenced by their mothers than are boys. Furthermore, parents' negative attitudes toward the EU exert a positive influence on their children's radical right voting, independent of their voting pattern.

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“…Individuals in international organizations usually come from diverse national backgrounds+ When do national backgrounds reinforce, and when do they weaken, international socialization? 14+ See Checkel, this volume;Conover 1991;andHooghe 2002+ 15+ See Beck andJennings 1991;Johnston 2001;Risse 2000;and Sears and Valentino 1997+ 16+ Deception and attitude softness can be problematic among ordinary citizens, as public opinion research has demonstrated+ Zaller 1992+ Attitude softness, however, is rarely an issue for elites whose views tend to be more crystallized on political objects+ Jennings 1992+ There is no fire-proof method for distinguishing true from deceptive preferences+ I cannot discount the possibility that some respondents concealed their true preferences, though the circumstances of the interview~anonymity, voluntary participation, nonsensitive character of the questions!, and the senior status of the respondents considerable discretion, weak peer control! are reassuring+ 17+ In international relations, rationalists tend to take preferences as exogenous, while constructivists endogenize them+ However, as Fearon and Wendt remind us, it is unwise to exaggerate the difference+ Whether one endogenizes preferences is an analytical choice dictated by one's research question+ See Fearon and Wendt 2003, 64+ Preferences are the first step, and behavior the second step, in the two-step dance that is international cooperation+ Legro 1996+ 18+ Checkel, this volume+ • Inculcating values is a gradual process: the longer one's involvement in an organization, the more one's beliefs can be expected to approximate that organization's norms+ 19 While socialization usually requires long-term exposure, some individuals need less time than others+ Thus the rate at which individuals internalize individual norms varies+ Effect of novelty.…”

Section: Shaping Preferences In International Organizationsmentioning

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Several Roads Lead to International Norms, but Few Via International Socialization: A Case Study of the European Commission

Hooghe

2007

International Institutions and Socialization in Europe

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Can an international organization socialize those who work within it? The European Commission of the European Union is a crucial case because it is an autonomous international organization with a vocation to defend supranational norms+ If this body cannot socialize its members, which international organization can? I develop theoretical expectations about how time, organizational structure, alternative processes of preference formation, and national socialization affect international socialization+ To test these expectations for the European Commission, I use two surveys of top permanent Commission officials, conducted in 1996 and 2002+ The analysis shows that support for supranational norms is relatively high, but that this is more because of national socialization than socialization in the Commission+ National norms, originating in prior experiences in national ministries, loyalty to national political parties, or experience with one's country's organization of authority, decisively shape top officials' views on supranational norms+ There are, then, several roads to international norms+ To what extent can an international organization socialize those who work within it? In order for international institutions in Europe to socialize states and state agents into international norms, they must themselves emanate these norms+ But can one simply presume that the people who work within international organizations share international norms, and if so, what are the causal mechanisms?The Commission of the European Union~hereafter the European Commission! is a crucial case for examining socialization within an international organization+

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Family Traditions, Political Periods, and the Development of Partisan Orientations

Cited by 169 publications

References 14 publications

All in the Family? Parental Roles in the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

All in the Family? Parental Roles in the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

Young people, parents and radical right voting. The Case of the Swiss People’s Party

Several Roads Lead to International Norms, but Few Via International Socialization: A Case Study of the European Commission

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