Girls, Boys and Politics

Dowse, Robert E.; Hughes, John A.

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“…Studies investigating the political knowledge of children found similar relationships (cf. among others Dowse & Hughes, 1971, pp. 55–57; Easton & Dennis, 1969, p. 353; Lutkus & Weiss, 2007, p. 14; Orum, Cohen, Grasmuck, & Orum, 1974, p. 204; Snyder, Dillow, & Hoffman, 2008, p. 189).…”

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Children and Politics: An Empirical Reassessment of Early Political Socialization

Deth

Abendschön

Vollmar

2010

Political Psychology

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Demands for the inclusion of children, the youngest citizens, in democratic decision making are increasing. Although there is an abundance of empirical research on the political orientations of adolescents, there is a paucity of research on younger children's orientations. Our panel study of more than 700 children in their first year of primary school shows that these young children already exhibit consistent, structured political orientations. We examine the distribution and development of political knowledge, issue orientations, and notions of good citizenship. We find achievement differences between subgroups at the beginning of the school year, and these differences do not disappear. Children from ethnic minorities and lower socioeconomic residence areas show relatively less developed political orientations, and they do not improve as much over the school year as other children. Furthermore, normative political orientations and cognitive orientations differ in their development.

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“…As age increases children's political knowledge became more precise and their knowledge content increased (cf. Connell, 1971; Dowse & Hughes, 1971, pp. 55–56; Gemmeke, 1994, p. 7; Landes, 1977, p. 72; Thompson, 1979, pp.…”

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Children and Politics: An Empirical Reassessment of Early Political Socialization

Deth

Abendschön

Vollmar

2010

Political Psychology

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“…Attempts to account for less political activity among women have employed three major hypotheses or sets of explanatory factors (Dowse and Hughes 1971;Orum et al 1974;Welch 1980). The situational explanation looks to the contemporary characteristics of a woman's life space.…”

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Gender Roles and Inequalities in Political Participation: Results from an Eight-Nation Study

Jennings¹

1983

The Western Political Quarterly

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“…Researchers have also found differences in political knowledge and awareness. These differences indicate greater political knowledge and awareness for boys than for girls (Dearden, 1974; Dowse 8z Hughes, 1971;Greenstein, 1965;Heiskanen, 1971;Hyman, 1959;Orum, Cohen, Grasmuck & Orum, 1974;Torney, Oppenheim & Farnen, 1975).…”

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Sex‐related differences in socio‐political ideology

Sidanius

Ekehammar

1980

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The study was directed towards uncovering differences in socio‐political ideology between males and females. The subjects consisted of 532 Swedish high school students from metropolitan Stockholm. All subjects were from the same grade and of approximately the same age (18 years). The results failed to disclose any significant differences in the political party preference of males and females. However, there were a number of statistically significant differences in the socio‐political attitudes of males and females as measured by the S5 Conservatism Scale. Females were found to be less generally conservative, less racist, pro‐western, punitive and more religious and egalitarian than males. Despite certain ideological differences between males and females, the socio‐political attitude profiles and the attitude structures, as measured by profile and factor analyses, were quite similar for males and females. The results are discussed in terms of four schools of thought concerning the sources of sex‐related differences in political style.

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Girls, Boys and Politics

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Children and Politics: An Empirical Reassessment of Early Political Socialization

Children and Politics: An Empirical Reassessment of Early Political Socialization

Gender Roles and Inequalities in Political Participation: Results from an Eight-Nation Study

Sex‐related differences in socio‐political ideology

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