Young people, parents and radical right voting. The Case of the Swiss People’s Party

Coffé, Hilde; Voorpostel, Marieke

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.03.015

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“…Finally, this sample only examined mother–child relational contexts. There is ample evidence that mothers play a central role in the political values of their households (Coffe and Voorpostel ; Zuckerman, Dasovic, and Fitzgerald ), so it may be the case that gender‐of‐parent effects alter the process of transmission found here.…”

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Parenting Styles, Socialization, and the Transmission of Political Ideology and Partisanship

Murray

Mulvaney

2012

Politics & Policy

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While research has long shown that parents are first and foremost among the agents of political socialization, substantial evidence suggests there is a great deal of variation in the transmission of political values from parents to their children. This article attempts to explain some of this variation by examining how parenting style—as represented by the parent–child relational context in terms of dimensions of parental control and affect—affects the intergenerational transmission of political attributes. In particular, it evaluates how differences in parenting style influence the intergenerational transmission of political ideology and partisan identification. Findings based on original data collected from a sample of mother–offspring dyads show that differences in parenting styles play an important moderating role in the variable transmission of parental political values. Further, these results add a new dimension to the study of political socialization by demonstrating the role of parenting styles in the transmission of political values. Related Articles Mientras que investigaciones han mostrado que los padres son los primeros y principales agentes de socialización política, evidencia substancial sugiere que hay una gran variación en la transmisión de valores políticos de padres a hijos. Este estudio intenta explicar parte de esta variación al examinar cómo las formas de educación—representadas por el contexto relacional padres‐hijos in términos de dimensiones de control parental y afecto—repercuten la transmisión intergeneracional de atributos políticos. En particular, evalúo cómo las diferencias en las formas de educación influencian la transmisión intergeneracional de ideología política e identificación partidista. Resultados basados en datos originales recolectados de una muestra de pares madre‐hijo muestran que las diferencias en las formas de educación juegan un papel moderador importante en la variable de transmisión de los valores paternos. Así mismo, estos resultados añaden una nueva dimensión al estudio de la socialización política al demostrar el papel de las formas de educación en la transmisión de valores políticos.

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Parenting Styles, Socialization, and the Transmission of Political Ideology and Partisanship

Murray

Mulvaney

2012

Politics & Policy

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“…In an analysis of party manifestos, thereby focusing on supply‐side explanations of radical right voting, Ruedin () shows that, in general, SVP has shifted towards more restrictive views regarding immigration since 1995. Anti‐immigrant stances, that is demand‐side factors, have indeed been found to predict voting for the SVP (Coffé & Voorpostel, ; Oesch, ; Skenderovic, ; Stockemer, ). To fully capture the complex links between immigration‐related phenomena and support for the radical right, it is crucial to examine how antecedents of immigration attitudes—threat perceptions, positive contacts with stigmatized immigrants as well as the actual presence of such immigrants—shape the SVP vote.…”

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From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact

Green

Sarrasin

Baur

et al. 2015

Political Psychology

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This study examines the interplay between presence of stigmatized immigrants, threat, and intergroup contact that underlies radical right voting (voting propensity and actual district‐level vote results). On the one hand, low‐status immigrants are often stigmatized and depicted as threats. Thus, presence of stigmatized immigrants should heighten threat perceptions, thereby increasing radical right voting. On the other hand, as positive contact with stigmatized immigrants is known to reduce anti‐immigrant prejudice, it should also attenuate radical right voting. As predicted, multilevel path analyses with the Swiss Election Studies 2011 data (N = 1,736 respondents in 136 districts) revealed that the proportion of stigmatized immigrants (from former Yugoslavia and Albania) in districts heightened perceived threat. Threat perceptions, in turn, increased propensity to vote for the Swiss People's Party, the major radical right party. In contrast, experiencing positive, everyday contact with former Yugoslav and Albanian immigrants reduced voting propensity through attenuated threat perceptions. Contact and threat perceptions were also related to the actual vote through voting propensity.

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“…She also tells us, however, that she only knows three of the candidates. This double perception of the institutionalized universe, based on piecemeal information (Coffe and Voorpostel, 2010) and expected social competence (stays cool, self-confident) demonstrates the complexity of their relationship to politics.…”

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Political practices from the sidelines: A qualitative approach to political ambivalence in contemporary working-class youth in France

Barrault-Stella¹,

Berjaud²

2015

Fr Polit

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As a supplement to the classic works of electoral studies, this article investigates the relationships to politics and vote of working-class youth from the Parisian banlieues on the basis of a qualitative field study conducted during the 2012 presidential campaign. In doing so it addresses the general question of why and how a population that is usually seen as disconnected from politics votes anyway. We show that disinterest in politics does not equate to dispossession. Internal divides within the working class, elliptic appropriations, personal references and everyday life all contribute to the construction of opinions that translate into electoral positions. Finally, this article constitutes a methodological contribution to electoral sociology in addition to quantitative works. French Politics (2015) 13, 221-240.

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Young people, parents and radical right voting. The Case of the Swiss People’s Party

Cited by 59 publications

References 48 publications

Parenting Styles, Socialization, and the Transmission of Political Ideology and Partisanship

Parenting Styles, Socialization, and the Transmission of Political Ideology and Partisanship

From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact

Political practices from the sidelines: A qualitative approach to political ambivalence in contemporary working-class youth in France

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