Families, divorce and voter turnout in the US

Sandell, Julianna; Plutzer, Eric

doi:10.1007/s11109-005-3341-9

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“…And, that focus continues today (Jennings et al 2001;Plutzer 2002;Sandell and Plutzer 2005;Verba et al 2005). Researchers look at how various aspects of the home environment, such as parental political participation, parent-child political discussions, and parental socioeconomic status, influence adolescent political development and voter turnout in young adulthood.…”

Section: Home Resources and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Political Socialization in Context: The Effect of Political Competition on Youth Voter Turnout

Pacheco

2008

Polit Behav

115

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Adolescence is an important time for political development. Researchers have concentrated on the family as the sole socializing agent of youths; however, as Campbell, Gimpel, and others have shown, political contexts also matter for young citizens. Using the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, the Record of American Democracy, and election outcomes data, I find that adolescents who resided in politically competitive locales or states have higher turnout years later compared to those who lived in uncompetitive contexts. These effects are not mediated by the home political environment and act through political socialization. This research adds to a growing literature on the influence of political contexts on political behavior and is the first to explore how political competition during adolescence influences voter turnout in young adulthood.

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Section: Home Resources and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Political Socialization in Context: The Effect of Political Competition on Youth Voter Turnout

Pacheco

2008

Polit Behav

115

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“…A robust result emerging from this literature is that parental education is positively related to adult political engagement and voting participation (Sandell and Plutzer 2005;Pacheco and Plutzer 2008) and the relationship is often interpreted as causal (Verba, Burns, and Schlozman 2003). Existing estimates may overstate the causal e¤ect of education due to the existence of omitted genetic factors associated with both education and turnout.…”

Section: Parental Education and Voter Turnoutmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the voting literature, one of the most robust …ndings is that parental education predicts voter turnout later in life (Verba, Burns, and Schlozman 2003;Verba, Schlozman, and Burns 2005;Sandell, and Plutzer 2005;Pacheco and Plutzer 2008). One possible source of bias in such analyses is the possible correlation between parental education and unobserved genetic factors that in ‡uence turnout through other channels.…”

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Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data

2014

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This paper analyzes a rich Swedish data set with information on the electoral turnout of a large sample of adoptees, their siblings, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. We use a simple regression framework to decompose the parent-child resemblance in voting into pre-birth factors, measured by biological parents' voting, and post-birth factors, measured by adoptive parents'voting. Adoptees are more likely to vote if their biological parents were voters and if they were assigned to families in which the adoptive parents vote. We …nd evidence of interactions between the preand post-birth factors: the e¤ect of the post-birth environment on turnout is greater amongst adoptees whose biological mothers are non-voters. We also show that the relationships between parental characteristics, such as education, and child turnout persist even in the absence of a genetic link between parent and child. The regression-based framework we utilize provides a basis for the integration of behavior-genetic research into mainstream political science.

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“…As stated somewhere else, "this should ultimately reduce youth voter turnout" (Sandell and Plutzer 2005).…”

Section: Parental Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Families, divorce and voter turnout in the US

Cited by 74 publications

References 49 publications

Political Socialization in Context: The Effect of Political Competition on Youth Voter Turnout

Political Socialization in Context: The Effect of Political Competition on Youth Voter Turnout

Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data

Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference

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