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

Pacheco, Julianna

doi:10.1007/s11109-008-9057-x

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“…The home context is an irreplaceable socializing agent on the political beliefs of young people, to the extent that other positive influencing factors (e.g. the local political context) cannot work in the absence of this social construct (Pacheco, 2008).…”

Section: Political Socialization Within the Singapore Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Political Socialization on People’s Online and Offline Political Participation—Taking the Youth of Singapore as an Example

Hong¹,

Lin²

2017

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Recent years have seen an increase in political participation among young people worldwide. In light of this heightened political consciousness among youth, the process by which the young might develop political attitudes and become engaged with politics makes a worthy and important research subject. This study thus focuses on whether political socialization by family and peers can affect the online and offline political participation of Singapore youth, also taking into consideration recent changes in the local political environment. The other aspect the study wished to explore whether offline and online news exposure might have a correlation with youth political participation. AC Nielsen Research Pte Ltd. was commissioned to conduct the post-election national telephone survey. Data analysis supported that political socialization by the two sources of family and peers was significantly correlated with young people's political participation in both offline and online forms. In addition, the results indicate that newspaper reading was associated with youth's online political participation but not with their offline political participation. And online news exposure was found to significantly correlate with youth's online political participation. One other result worth mentioning is the positive correlation between mother's education and respondent's offline political participation.

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Section: Political Socialization Within the Singapore Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Political Socialization on People’s Online and Offline Political Participation—Taking the Youth of Singapore as an Example

Hong¹,

Lin²

2017

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“…van Deth, Abendschön, & Vollmar, 2011) a nakolik politické postoje v adolescenci ovlivňuje působení exosystému a makrosystému (např. Bogard & Sherrod, 2008;Pacheco, 2008) a jaké jsou mechanizmy působení (např. McLeod & Shah, 2009;Flanagan et al, 2011).…”

Section: Zkoumání Občanských Postojůunclassified

Vliv navštěvované střední školy na občanské postoje středoškoláků v ČR

Straková¹,

Simonová²

2018

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Abstrakt: Řada výzkumných studií se zabývala dopady stratifikace vzdělávacích systémů na výsledky vzdělávání žáků a sebepojetí žáků. Málo pozornosti bylo dosud věnová-no zkoumání dopadů stratifikace na utváření občanských postojů. Tato stať hledá odpovědi na otázky, jaké jsou postoje českých žáků v různých typech středních škol k účasti ve volbách, ke školní a občanské angažovanosti a k právům menšin. Impact of attended track on civic attitudes of secondary school students in the Czech RepublicAbstract: Many research studies dealt with the impacts of stratification of education systems on student outcomes and their self-concept. Little attention has been given to the impact of stratification on the formation of civic attitudes. This paper examines the attitudes of the Czech students in different tracks of secondary education towards the participation in elections, the civic and school engagement and the minority rights, and how the differences of student attitudes have changed in the different schools and tracks in the past decade. The paper also analyses the school factors that influence student attitudes. Data from CIVED (Civic Education Study) in 1999 and Civic Attitudes of Youth Survey (OPM) in 2010 are used. Data were analysed by hierarchical multilevel modelling. Analyses show that civic attitudes of young voters remained stable between 1998 and 2010, as well as the magnitude of differences between tracks and indiviual schools. Analyses infer that development of civic attitudes is influenced by school educational approaches rather than by student composition.

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“…Empirical evidence available suggests that parental discussions of social and political issues foster marginalized youths' participation in social action and political participation (Diemer andLi 2011, Diemer 2012). Consequently, parents provide political socialization by discussing social and political events with their children (Pacheco 2008).…”

Section: Parental Effectsmentioning

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

Cited by 115 publications

References 29 publications

The Impacts of Political Socialization on People’s Online and Offline Political Participation—Taking the Youth of Singapore as an Example

The Impacts of Political Socialization on People’s Online and Offline Political Participation—Taking the Youth of Singapore as an Example

Vliv navštěvované střední školy na občanské postoje středoškoláků v ČR

Entity/Event-Level Sentiment Detection and Inference

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