The lasting impact of adolescence on left-right identification: Cohort replacement and intracohort change in associations with issue attitudes

Rekker, Roderik

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2016.06.016

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“…Research on youths shows that stable political orientations can be traced back to a formative period during adolescence and early adulthood (e.g., Rekker et al, 2015Rekker et al, , 2018Rekker, 2016).…”

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How (often) do voters change their consideration sets?

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Rosema²

2019

Electoral Studies

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The consideration set model posits that in multi-party elections voters decide in two stages. We expect that in the consideration stage, when voters select viable options, ideological proximity is a key determinant, while in the choice stage election-specific factors become particularly important. This would imply that consideration sets are rather stable and that changes in voting preferences occur mainly within ideologically coherent consideration sets. This study examines both claims by analyzing panel survey data from Sweden and the Netherlands. Consideration sets were indeed rather stable, more so than voting intentions. After one year, voters still considered the same party in 81% of cases and only 13% of respondents shifted between ideological camps. This indicates that voters changed electoral preferences primarily within the boundaries of relatively stable consideration sets and ideological camps. These findings help to understand how elections can be volatile, despite the strong impact of highly stable ideological orientations.

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Section: The Stability Of Voters' Consideration Setsmentioning

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Rosema²

2019

Electoral Studies

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“…Research has shown that, over time, the right-left political orientation has increasingly been based on cultural (or authoritarian-libertarian), rather than economic (or traditional left-right) issues (Vries, Hakhverdian, and Lancee 2013). Moreover, this trend is partly due to cohort replacement as the political right-left orientation of younger cohorts is more strongly driven by cultural issues (Rekker 2016). While the general question on self-placement is informative about general political tendencies, the underlying cultural and economic dimensions of political orientation can reveal more specifically on which issues professors potentially deviate from other occupational groups.…”

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Are Universities Left-Wing Bastions? The Political Orientation of Professors, Professionals and Managers in Europe

Werfhorst¹

2019

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Universities are accused of being left-wing bastions, unwelcoming to conservative and right-wing professors. However, we know little about the political orientation of professors in comparison to other professionals, which would be the right comparison group if we want to know whether universities are potentially hostile environments to conservatives. Examining culturally and economically oriented political orientations in Europe, it is demonstrated that professors are more liberal and left-leaning than other professionals. However, there is no greater homogeneity of political orientations among the professoriate relative to other specific professions, suggesting that there is a diversity of opinions which is similar to what professionals would find in other occupations. One exception concerns attitudes towards immigration, on which professors have more liberal orientations and comparatively low residual variance around that more liberal mean. Importantly, the difference between professors and other professionals is not so clear within graduates from the social sciences, but emerges more clearly among graduates with a medical, STEM, economics or law degree. An important political cleavage exists between professionals and managers, a group of similar social standing.

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“…For example, how and when beliefs were formed can help explain why some attitudes persist over time, while others change profoundly (e.g., Kroh & Selb, 2009;Rekker et al, 2015Rekker et al, , 2017. Moreover, historical circumstances that affect voters during their 'impressionable years' have the potential to bring about political change through generational replacement (e.g., Mannheim, 1964;Rekker, 2016Rekker, , 2018. Despite this presumed importance of adolescence, there are only few studies on party preference among underage youths, since most election surveys only include respondents above the legal voting age.…”

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The Formation of Party Preference in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: How and When Does It Occur in the Multiparty Context of the Netherlands?

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Keijsers

Branje

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This cohort-sequential panel study on Dutch youths (N = 3394) and their parents examined the formation of party preference between age 12 and 25. Specifically, it aimed to pinpoint the most formative component and age in a multiparty context. Opinionation, stability and correlates were examined for three components of party preference: party identification, voting intention and left-right identification. Results revealed that most youths formed a preference at some point during their early life. The 6-year stability of party preference was already substantial during early adolescence and increased until early adulthood. Party preference became increasingly related to youths' social characteristics and issue attitudes with age, but parents remained important. Whereas studies from two-party systems emphasized the importance of party identification, this study suggested that left-right identification may instead predominate the early formation, intergenerational transmission and life-course stability of party preference in the Netherlands. The most formative period was around age 18.

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The lasting impact of adolescence on left-right identification: Cohort replacement and intracohort change in associations with issue attitudes

Cited by 27 publications

References 63 publications

How (often) do voters change their consideration sets?

How (often) do voters change their consideration sets?

Are Universities Left-Wing Bastions? The Political Orientation of Professors, Professionals and Managers in Europe

The Formation of Party Preference in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: How and When Does It Occur in the Multiparty Context of the Netherlands?

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