2021
DOI: 10.1177/0044118x211029976
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Raising a Politically Engaged Generation: When Parental Influence Matters Most

Abstract: At what ages are young people most open to political influence? We test the “formative years” model that underscores the importance of childhood experiences for political development against the “impressionable years” model that asserts the primacy of lessons learned during adolescence. To assess the relative merits of these competing models, we develop a new analytical strategy: the Retrospective Family Context approach. We estimate the political engagement levels of 18-year-olds as a function of annual measu… Show more

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“…3 The parents of our research subjects have been surveyed individually for many past years, providing insight into the dynamics of household partisanship surrounding each young person while they were growing up. In a recent publication, we refer to this mode of analysis as the “retrospective family context” approach (Bacovsky and Fitzgerald, 2021). It allows researchers to peer backward in time in a granular way to view the history of parental partisanship in a youth’s household.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…3 The parents of our research subjects have been surveyed individually for many past years, providing insight into the dynamics of household partisanship surrounding each young person while they were growing up. In a recent publication, we refer to this mode of analysis as the “retrospective family context” approach (Bacovsky and Fitzgerald, 2021). It allows researchers to peer backward in time in a granular way to view the history of parental partisanship in a youth’s household.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although not without its challengers (see, e.g. Dinas, 2014), a wealth of research points to the profound effects of parental household factors on the formation of people’s basic orientations toward political parties in many country contexts (Abendschön and Tausendpfund, 2017; Bacovsky and Fitzgerald, 2021; Beck and Jennings, 1982; Converse, 1969; Davies, 1965; Easton and Dennis, 1967; Jennings and Niemi, 1968; Jennings et al, 2009; Ventura, 2001).…”
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“…Political socialization emphasizes the factors that influence the development of one’s political attitudes, knowledge, and identity in one’s formative years. Works on political socialization often focus on the role of family communication patterns, specifically, how parents’ political predispositions are transmitted to their children ( Bacovsky and Fitzgerald, 2021 ; Siegel-Stechler, 2021 ). Political socialization is also expanded to other interpersonal communication such as that between children/adolescents and their friends, peer groups, etc.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%