The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries

Mogi, Ryohei; Arpino, Bruno

doi:10.4054/demres.2022.47.14

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“…Third, we contribute to the growing field of Political Demography (Goldstone et al 2012) that has been focussing on the macro-and micro-level interrelations between demographic and political changes (Mogi and Arpino, 2022;Sommer, 2018;Vogl and Freese, 2020). In particular, our study on the intersection between political preferences and union dissolution, provides new insights on the contribution of marriage market's dynamics on political polarization, which has mainly addressed the dynamics of relationship sorting (or partnership formation: Anderson et al 2014;Huber and Malhotra 2017).…”

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Sleeping with the enemy. Partners’ political attitudes and risk of separation

Arpino¹,

Nallo²

2022

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Does politics conflict with love? We aim at answering this question by examining the effect on union dissolution of partners’ (mis)match on political preferences, defined as self-reported closeness, intention to vote, or vote for a specific party. Previous studies argued that partners’ heterogamy may increase risk of union dissolution because of differences among partners in lifestyles, attitudes, and beliefs, and/or because of disapproval from family and community members. We posit that similar arguments can apply to political heterogamy and test the effect of this new heterogamy dimension using UK data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). The data offer a unique opportunity to disentangle the role of heterogamy by political preferences from the effects of heterogamies in other domains (e.g., ethnicity and religiosity) and from that of other partners’ characteristics, while also covering a long period of time (from 1991 to 2021). The data also allow to implement a more specific analysis about the referendum on UK’s permanence in the European Union (known as the Brexit referendum). We find a positive effect of political preferences heterogamy on union dissolution. In addition, diverging opinions on the Brexit referendum is associated to higher chances of partnership break-up.

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Sleeping with the enemy. Partners’ political attitudes and risk of separation

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Nallo²

2022

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“…Population size, density and age structure impact on domestic conflict (Wagschal & Metz 2016). At the microlevel, several relationships have been identified, including between being or becoming a parent and vote turnout (Mogi and Arpino, 2022) and political attitudes (Banducci et al 2016).…”

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Individuals’ left-right self-placement and their fertility intentions: Evidence from the European Social Survey

Arpino,

Mogi

2024

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Social scientists have long been interested in how attitudes and values influence fertility intentions and behaviors. The role of political ideology has, on the contrary, been overlooked. Right-wing people tend to be more religious, to hold more traditional views on gender roles and the importance of the family. Therefore, right-wing people more likely to hold positive fertility intentions that individuals with other political orientations. In addition, political ideology may have an effect on fertility intention independent of other attitudes. Using two rounds of the European Social Survey, we show that people that position at the extreme right of the political ideology scale are more likely to intend to have a child during the three years following the interview. This association holds even after accounting for several socio-demographic and economic factors, values and attitudes. Heterogeneity tests show that the association is restricted to younger individuals (aged 20-34), with higher levels of education (at least upper secondary), and individuals in Eastern Europe. In Southern Europe right-wing individuals show significantly higher predicted probabilities of a positive fertility intention compared people that locate themselves in the political center. The statistically significant associations are also sizeable (differences in terms of predicted probabilities vary between 4 and 9 percentage points). These results point to the importance of considering a neglected factor in fertility research and contribute to the growing field of Political Demography.

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„Political Demography“ – blinder Fleck der deutschen Politikwissenschaft? Eine einführende Literaturübersicht

Kurz,

Kohl,

Lünser

et al. 2024

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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ZusammenfassungGlobal betrachtet sind die Auswirkungen des demographischen Wandels unübersehbar. Die durch steigende Lebenserwartung und sinkende Geburtenraten ausgelöste Entwicklung ist eine der größten Errungenschaften des 20. Jahrhunderts. Demographische Veränderungen werden grundlegend durch drei Hauptfaktoren ausgelöst: Mortalität, Fertilität und Migration. All diese Faktoren haben Gesellschaften innerhalb des letzten Jahrhunderts stark geprägt. Deutschland als alterndes Land ist hier keine Ausnahme. In den letzten 20 Jahren hat sich ein aktives Forschungsfeld entwickelt, welches die Wechselwirkungen zwischen demographischen und politischen Faktoren untersucht und im Rahmen dieser Literaturübersicht vorgestellt wird. Trotz einer Vielzahl an Veröffentlichungen fehlt es außerhalb der Migrationsforschung an Vernetzung und Austausch, obwohl schnell voranschreitender demographischer Wandel eine der am besten vorhersagbaren zukünftigen Entwicklungen ist. Innerhalb der deutschen Politikwissenschaft werden demographische Faktoren trotz ihres großen Einflusses und der immer stärker zutage tretenden Auswirkungen des demographischen Wandels noch zu selten in Analysen miteinbezogen und ein Austausch mit der Bevölkerungswissenschaft ist selten. Wir plädieren daher für eine stärkere Miteinbeziehung demographischer Prozesse – sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der politikwissenschaftlichen Ausbildung und Lehre.

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The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Sleeping with the enemy. Partners’ political attitudes and risk of separation

Sleeping with the enemy. Partners’ political attitudes and risk of separation

Individuals’ left-right self-placement and their fertility intentions: Evidence from the European Social Survey

„Political Demography“ – blinder Fleck der deutschen Politikwissenschaft? Eine einführende Literaturübersicht

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