Turnout and Education: Is Education Proxying for Pre-Adult Experiences Within the Family?

Gidengil, Elisabeth; Tarkiainen, Lasse; Wass, Hanna; Martikainen, Pekka

doi:10.1017/psrm.2017.32

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“…The most important control variables are parental voting, grandparental education, 5 and both the parents' and grandchildren's education, social class, and income. 6 As the effects of education may not be linear and there is no consensus in the literature as to which level of education matters for political participation (Gidengil et al 2019), education is represented by four dummy variables, corresponding to high school, associate degree, bachelor's degree or equivalent, and graduate degree or equivalent, with junior high school as the reference category. 7 The coding of parental and grandparental education is based on the dominance principle, that is, the highest levels of education attained by any grandparent and by one or both parents, respectively.…”

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From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting

Gidengil

Lahtinen²,

Wass³

et al. 2020

Political Research Quarterly

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The literature on the reproduction of political participation across generations has focused almost exclusively on parental effects. Yet, other family members may plausibly play an important role as well. This study explores the role of grandparents in the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to vote. Grandparental effects are theorized in terms of both social learning and status transmission. The analysis takes advantage of a unique dataset that links official turnout data for grandparents, parents, and adult grandchildren with demographic and socioeconomic information from administrative sources. Even controlling for a variety of status-related characteristics, grandchildren are significantly less likely to vote when their grandparents are non-voters. The association between grandparental turnout and the turnout of their adult grandchildren is only partly explained by the mediating effect of parental turnout. Having non-voting grandparents appears to reinforce the effect of having parents who do not vote and may even offset the effects of having parents who are both voters. These results suggest that it is time to take the role of grandparents seriously if we want to understand how political disadvantage is transmitted across generations.

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From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting

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Lahtinen²,

Wass³

et al. 2020

Political Research Quarterly

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“…Education was significantly associated with turnout in bivariate analyses but was not significant in the multivariate model we estimated, which controlled for many other covariates which may impact this association. Education has long been regarded as one of the best predictors of turnout, however recent work suggests educational attainment may only be an indicator for other pre-adult experiences linked to turnout (Gidengil et al, 2019).…”

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Equity at the Ballot Box: Health as a Resource for Political Participation Among Low-Income Workers in Two United States Cities

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Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify health resources associated with propensity to vote at the local-level among low-wage workers in two United States. cities. Literature confirms individuals of lower income have a lower propensity of turning out to vote, yet few studies have focused on low-income populations to identify the variation in factors associated with voting within this group. Furthermore, few studies have investigated health and voter turnout at the local-level. In this study, we examine factors related to political participation at the local-level within a low-wage sample, examine mental, physical, behavioral, and social health and their association with voter turnout, and assess if these relationships differ by city.Methods: We use cross-sectional survey data from a sample of 974 low-wage workers in Minneapolis, MN and Raleigh, NC. We computed descriptive statistics and employed a logistic regression to predict their likelihood of local voter turnout, with the key independent variables being health resources, such as self-rated health, body mass index (BMI), mental disability, smoking status, and health insurance status. We employed a logistic regression fully interacted with a city indicator variable to assess if these associations differed by city.Results: In both cities, less than 50 percent of respondents reported voting in the last election for mayor or city council. About three-quarters of the sample reported food or housing insecurity and the majority of respondents reported utilizing some government assistance, such as supplemental nutrition programs. BMI greater than 30 was significantly associated with lower likelihood of voter turnout compared to those of lower BMI status (marginal effect = −0.10, p = 0.026). Never smoking or quitting was significantly associated with higher likelihood of voter turnout compared to those who reported being a current smoker (marginal effect = 0.10, p = 0.002). Those with health insurance were significantly more likely to report voting compared to those without any insurance (marginal effect = 0.10, p = 0.022). These results did not significantly differ by city.Conclusions: Our research suggests low-wage workers face significant health burdens which may impact their propensity to vote at the local-level, and these associations do not significantly vary by city despite demographic and political differences between two jurisdictions.

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“…Parental influences operate through structural and dynamic mechanisms. Structural factors encompass parental socioeconomic status and other social characteristics that spill over to values (Neundorf et al, 2013) and behavior, such as voter turnout (Gidengil, Tarkiainen, Wass, & Martikainen, 2019). For instance, schoolchildren's identification as European was found to be influenced by parental socioeconomic background (measured by parents' occupational prestige; Agirdag, Huyst, & Van Houtte, 2012).…”

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Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism

Kuhn

Lancee

Sarrasin

2021

Political Psychology

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Research consistently shows that individuals with higher levels of education express lower levels of Euroskepticism. This relationship has been explained by values and skills acquired in education and by higher labor‐market competitiveness. While these explanations assume a causal impact of education, previous research uses cross‐sectional data. This is problematic, as students self‐select into education. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, it provides a better test of the causal effect of education on Euroskepticism by using data from the Swiss Household Panel (1999–2011) that allow analyzing how Euroskepticism changes as students move through education from the age of 13 years onwards. Second, it advances theory by highlighting the role of parental socialization in explaining Euroskepticism. We argue that children of higher educated parents select into higher education and take over the pro‐European attitudes of their parents. We find a strong educational divide in Euroskepticism. However, longitudinal analyses show no change in Euroskepticism as individuals pass through education. Supporting the parental‐socialization hypothesis, parental Euroskeptic attitudes and education explain changes in youngsters' Euroskepticism. The results suggest that, rather than a genuine education effect, differences between educational groups are mostly a result of self‐selection due to family background.

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Turnout and Education: Is Education Proxying for Pre-Adult Experiences Within the Family?

Cited by 26 publications

References 51 publications

From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting

From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting

Equity at the Ballot Box: Health as a Resource for Political Participation Among Low-Income Workers in Two United States Cities

Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism

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