The Similarity of Political Values of Parents and College-Age Youths

Niemi, Richard G.; Ross, Randy; Alexander, Joseph R.

doi:10.1086/268476

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“…Since children identify more with the same-sex parent, earlier studies expected sons to be relatively more influenced by their fathers and daughters by their mothers (Maccoby and Jacklin, 1974). Most political socialization studies on gender-specific socialization confirm this idea (Jennings and Niemi, 1974;Niemi, Ross, and Alexander, 1978;De Hart, 1990). We therefore refined our mother-dominated socialization hypothesis to include the assumption that the influence of father's and mother's political party preference depends on the sex of their child.…”

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confidence: 94%

Intergenerational Transmission of Political Party Preference in the Netherlands

Nieuwbeerta

Wittebrood

1995

Social Science Research

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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.

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Section: Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 94%

Intergenerational Transmission of Political Party Preference in the Netherlands

Nieuwbeerta

Wittebrood

1995

Social Science Research

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“…Corroborating this view, Jennings & Niemi (1968) and Niemi, Ross & Alexander (1978) have shown that with partisanship, parent-child similarities are stronger than with other, less 'symbolic' political attitudes (Sears et al 1980, Sears & Funk 1999. Krosnick (1991) in his critical reappraisal of previous evidence, however, concludes "that focussing on the attitude object may not be the most effective way to distinguish strong attitudes from weak ones.…”

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Inheritance and the Dynamics of Party Identification

Kroh

Selb

2009

Polit Behav

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“…By separately interviewing a national sample of high school seniors and their parents, these researchers were able to assess directly parent-child agreement and determine the extent of intergenerational value transfer. Their findings were supported by a series of other parent-child pair comparisons later (Tedin 1974, Niemi et al 1978, Jennings et al 1979. Overall, these contributions reveal that there is a high degree of transmission of political behavior between parents and their adult children (Jennings et al 2009, Fieldhouse and Cutts 2012, Bhatti et al 2014.…”

Section: Parental Effectsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference

Deng

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Rese

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Turnout has decreased in 23 out of 36 established democracies since 1945. Among all worldwide cases Costa Rica is a good laboratory for studying turnout oscillations. During three decades between 1958 and 1994, political participation average rates remained high in a comparative perspective. Following that trend, one would easily predict that individuals socialized during that period of time must replicate automatically their parents' and grandparents' levels of high political activism. However, turnout patterns in the country since 1998 do not fit very well in that story.Older voters are no longer voting at the rates they usually did and the younger are entering into politics during times of lower participation. The combination of these two factors can have big deleterious and long-lasting effects on turnout trends.Estimating the causal relationship between consecutive voting decisions has proven to be intrinsically difficult for social scientists. Drawing on an exceptionally rich and unique turnout dataset and a mixed-methods approach that includes longitudinal multivariate analysis, face-toface interviews and geospatial statistics this contribution seeks to explain why in Costa Rica, currently the oldest and most stable democracy in Latin America, turnout has declined? And more importantly: what factors drive these changes? v Individual characteristics, although still relevant in static theories regarding turnout determinants, have proved to be insufficient for understanding why individuals' turnout behavior varies over time. Instead, I theorize that the partisan (group) identity that makes people turn out because they are loyal to the party in a context of conflict produces stronger motivation but it is activated selectively, and it only works in a context of "threat" or polarized deliberation.Nevertheless, these incentives may change over time, they may increase or decrease under certain circumstances impacting turnout. Essentially, the more polarized the electoral competition, the easier it will be for citizens to cast their vote.A polarized deliberation, the key factor in my causal story, creates the conditions for the activation of strong partisan identities that stimulate voters' mobilization to the polls. Therefore, During the course of my fieldwork in Costa Rica, I accumulated many debts. I especially thank all the persons I contacted for the interviews and accepted to share their experiences with me. These interviews were crucial for my research project. Without the knowledge I compiled in these conversations I would not be able to develop the theoretical argument of chapter 6.In Pitt, I was also fortunate to share time with several great friends. (Carlin et.al. 2015).The worst case scenario would be one in which this pattern could extend individuals' apathy toward politics during lifetime, causing low turnout to freeze for decades. Therefore, if we want to understand the implications of turnout decline in established democracies, we first need to comprehend the conditions under which these chang...

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The Similarity of Political Values of Parents and College-Age Youths

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Intergenerational Transmission of Political Party Preference in the Netherlands

Intergenerational Transmission of Political Party Preference in the Netherlands

Inheritance and the Dynamics of Party Identification

Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference

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