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Family Ties: Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Participation

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Political participation is a prerequisite for democracy. Therefore, political sociologists have advised to socialize people past encouraging political participation from a young age onward. Parents are 1 of the about of import political socialization agents, specially at a immature historic period. Although the intergenerational manual of political attitudes has been studied quite intensively, the transmission of the political participation intention has been neglected. This study explores the effect of both mothers' and fathers' political action on their offspring'due south intention to participate. Using a data set from 2085 Belgian parent–child triads, we tested the direct and indirect transmission of political participation intention. We plant that although there is a direct transmission of political participation intention, after controlling for political give-and-take, political involvement and socio-economical status, this event is completely mediated. Therefore, we conclude that intergenerational transmission is an indirect procedure, supported by a high socio-economical status, more than political interest and a more politicized family environs in which politics is clearly perceived as salient.

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  1. It was as well tested whether these models held for mothers and fathers separately, and this was actually the example: in these models, the results were quasi-identical.

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Quintelier, Eastward. Intergenerational transmission of political participation intention. Acta Polit fifty, 279–296 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/ap.2014.xix

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  • parent–child relations
  • intergenerational transmission
  • political participation
  • political attitudes
  • structural equation modeling

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