Intergenerational Transmission of Party Affiliation Within Political Families

Aggeborn, Linuz; Nyman, Pär

doi:10.1007/s11109-020-09628-z

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“…Understanding the mechanisms underlying the intergenerational persistence of political outlooks and behavior requires paying closer attention to the role played by nonparental relatives in the process of political socialization. There are some signs that researchers are beginning to do this (see e.g., Aggeborn and Nyman 2021;Gidengil et al 2021;Lahtinen, Erola, and Wass 2019), but we hope to see more work along these lines in the future.…”

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The Perpetuity of the Past: Transmission of Political Inequality across Multiple Generations

Lindgren

Oskarsson

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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It is a well-established fact, from decades of research on political socialization, that the children of politically active parents are more likely to become politically active themselves. This poses a challenge for democracy, as it means that inequalities in political influence are reproduced across generations. The present study argues that this problem may be more severe than has hitherto been acknowledged. The reason for this is that previous research on the topic has focused almost exclusively on political transmission between parents and their children, whereas the role played by more distant forebears, such as grandparents, has been largely neglected. In this study, we use Swedish register data to analyze multigenerational associations in electoral participation. The empirical results clearly indicate that the traditional two-generation approach to the study of political transmission tends to underestimate intergenerational persistence in voting behavior and that this excess persistence has both genetic and social roots.

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The Perpetuity of the Past: Transmission of Political Inequality across Multiple Generations

Lindgren

Oskarsson

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Parents serve as role models of political engagement (e.g., Jennings et al, 2009). Children infer political attitudes from parent political behavior; observations may prompt discussions (Aggeborn & Nyman, 2021). Then too, parents may reward youth who conform to and emulate parent political attitudes (Vonk et al, 2019).…”

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“…Although many factors play a role in adolescent political socialization, we focus here on one of the most salient: parent attitudes about politics. Parents shape their adolescent children's attitudes over many issues, including political party affiliation (Aggeborn & Nyman, 2021) and voting participation (Gidengil et al, 2016). Little is known, however, about parent contributions to political alienation.…”

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The spread of political alienation from parents to adolescent children.

Leggett-James¹,

Eckstein²,

Richmond³

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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The present study examines the interpersonal circumstances that facilitate the spread of political alienation between parents and adolescent children. A total of 571 German adolescents (314 girls, 257 boys) and their mothers and fathers each completed questionnaires describing their own political alienation at two time points, approximately 1 year apart. In addition, adolescents completed questionnaires describing their perceptions of warmth in relationships with parents. Adolescents were in the sixth (M = 12.24 years old), eighth (M = 13.48 years old), and 10th (M = 15.51 years old) grades at the outset. Dyadic analyses revealed that initial parent political alienation predicted subsequent increases in adolescent political alienation for youth who described relationships with parents as high in warmth but not for those describing relationships as low in warmth. Mothers and fathers did not differ in terms of the magnitude of their influence. Adolescents did not influence the political alienation of their parents.

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“…The process of political socialisation for first-generation immigrants starts in their countries of origin and continues in their countries of residence (Neundorf & Smets, 2017). Through intergenerational transmission, first-generation immigrants transfer their experiences to their descendants (Aggeborn & Nyman, 2021;Jennings et al, 2009). Thus, for both first-and second-generation immigrants, the political socialisation-or the process by which citizens develop their political information, values, and behaviour (Neundorf & Smets, 2017)-is associated with structures and agents of socialisation in the countries of residence and of ancestral origin.…”

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What Does It Take for Immigrants to Join Political Parties?

Bozhinoska Lazarova,

Saalfeld,

Seifert

2024

PaG

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Political parties are crucial agents in democratic representation and political integration of persons of immigrant origin, a growing category of citizens in the European Union. Research demonstrates that citizens of immigrant origin are less likely to join political parties than persons without a migratory background. Nevertheless, party membership varies across countries and between immigrants. Accounting for such inter-individual and cross-national variations, this article uses secondary data from the European Social Survey, the Migrant Integration Policy Index, and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project for 25 European democracies to uncover mechanisms that explain the party membership of immigrants. In our multilevel analysis, we test interactions between country-specific variations in legislation on migration policies on the one hand and individual differences in political socialisation and political efficacy on the other. Our models suggest significant positive effects of exposure to a democratic regime in the country of origin and of internal efficacy on party membership of citizens of immigrant origin. Additionally, our findings highlight the significance of an inclusive national framework for immigrant integration, serving as a moderator to diminish the impact of political socialisation in less democratic countries on the decision of citizens with immigrant backgrounds to participate in political parties within their country of residence.

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Intergenerational Transmission of Party Affiliation Within Political Families

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

The Perpetuity of the Past: Transmission of Political Inequality across Multiple Generations

The Perpetuity of the Past: Transmission of Political Inequality across Multiple Generations

The spread of political alienation from parents to adolescent children.

What Does It Take for Immigrants to Join Political Parties?

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