Cambio de valor intergeneracional y transiciones a la democracia: ¿hacia la consolidación de una generación de la tercera ola?

Abstract

The American literature has extensively studied the dynamics of early political socialization and its impact on intergenerational differences since the early 1950s (Mannheim, 1928; Jennings, Stoker and Stoker, 2004; Schuman, 2011)� A key finding is that the emergence of new political generations requires salient historical events that strongly affect socialization in early political life� The comparative literature has also emphasized the relevance of early experiences in the formation of political attitudes, and mostly focused on historical events which transformed industrialized societies, identifying systematic differences in intergenerational values between pre-war and post-war cohorts (Inglehart, 1997;Inglehart and Welzel, 2005)� However, the study of early political socialization in Third Wave nations and its impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of individuals born and raised under these new democratic regimes has been practically ignored (among the very few exceptions are