Intergenerational Transmission of Political Party Preference in the Netherlands

Abstract

This article examines the intergenerational transmission of political party preference by analyzing data from a national representative survey of high school students in the Netherlands in 1991 (N = 5,148). Multinominallogistic diagonal reference models are applied to analyze the data. In general, no difference is found between the relative influence of father's and mother's polilical party preference. However, father's party preference has more of an effect on son's party preference than mother's, while mother's party preference has more impact on daughter's party preference than father's. Finally, contrary to our hypothesis. the chance of children With politically heterogeneous parents having a political party preference is no less than that of children of politically homogeneous parents.

Class Mobility and Political Preferences: Individual and Contextual Effects

“…Turner (1992) labels this the "effect of have been made by Parkin (1971, pp. 51,54), Knoke (1973), and Thorburn (1979), although subsequent empirical research has generally failed to confirm this hypothesis (Abramson 1972;De Graaf and Ultee 1990;Nieuwbeerta and De Graaf 1993;Clifford and Heath 1993).…”

“…We use this schema because it has proved to be useful in comparative intergenerational mobility research (Ganzeboom, Luijkx, and Treiman 1989) and in analyses of the consequences of social mobility for political preference (Nieuwbeerta and De Graaf 1993;Clifford and Heath 1993). Because of limitations in the data (e.g., because in some surveys detailed information on self-employment and supervisory status is lacking), we are not able to use more extended versions of the EGP schema.…”

“…possible interpretations (see Nieuwbeerta and De Graaf 1993). One interpretation is that the rate of adjustment is the same among the upwardly and downwardly mobile and that it is the extent of adjustment that differs.…”

Power and the gendered division of contraceptive use in Western European couples

“…where Bijmk refers to the probability that respondent k uses contraceptive method m, given man's educational level i and woman's education j (Eeckhaut et al, 2014;Nieuwbeerta and Wittebrood, 1995). θ ijm is the log odds that the same respondent k uses contraceptive method m. Parameters µ iim and µ jjm stand for the log odds that respondent k, with various types of educational homogamous couples, choses contraceptive method m over other methods (Nieuwbeerta and Wittebrood, 1995).…”

“…θ ijm is the log odds that the same respondent k uses contraceptive method m. Parameters µ iim and µ jjm stand for the log odds that respondent k, with various types of educational homogamous couples, choses contraceptive method m over other methods (Nieuwbeerta and Wittebrood, 1995). The terms p and (1 -p) indicate the relative weight of the man's and woman's absolute education respectively (Sobel, 1981).…”