Politics across generations: Family transmission reexamined

Journal of Politics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 782-799

  Jennings, M Kent ^a   Stoker, Laura ^b   Bowers, Jake ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450195133     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022381609090719     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Abramowitz, Alan I., and Kyle L. Saunders. 1998. "Ideological Realignment in the U.S. Electorate." Journal of Politics 60 (2): 634-652
2. Acock, Alan C., and Vern L. Bengston. 1980. "Socialization and Attribution Processes: Actual Versus Perceived Similarity among Parents and Youth." Journal of Marriage and the Family 42 (2): 501-515
3. Alford, John R., Carolyn L. Funk, and John R. Hibbing. 2005. "Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?" American Political Science Review 99 (2): 154-167
4. Alwin, Duane F., Ronald L. Cohen, and Theodore M. Newcomb. 1991. Political Attitudes over the Life Cycle: The Bennington Women after Fifty Years. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
5. Bandura, Albert. 1969. "Social-Learning Theory of Identificatory Processes." In Handbook of Socialization Theory Research, ed. David A. Goslin. Chicago: Rand McNally, 213-262
6. Bandura, Albert. 1986. Social Foundations of Thought and Action. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
7. Beckwith, Jon, and Corey A. Morris. 2008. "Twin Studies of Political Behavior: Untenable Assumptions?" Perspectives on Politics 6 (4): 785-791
8. Bengston, Vern L., Timothy J. Biblarz, and Robert E. L. Roberts. 2002. How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Campbell, David E. 2006. Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape our Civic Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
10. Carmines, Edward G., John P. McIver, and James A. Stimson. 1987. "Unrealized Partisanship: A Theory of Dealignment." The Journal of Politics 49 (1): 376-400.
11. Charney, Evan. 2008. "Genes and Ideologies." Perspectives on Politics 6 (2): 299-319.
12. Cohen, Jacob, and Patricia Cohen. 1983. Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
13. Converse, Philip E., and Gregory B. Markus. 1979. "Plus Ca Change . . . : The New CPS Election Study Panel." American Political Science Review 73 (1): 32-49.
14. Dalton, Russell. 1980. "Reassessing Parental Socialization: Indicator Unreliability versus Generational Transfer." American Political Science Review 74 (2): 421-431
15. Dalton, Russell. 1982. "The Pathways of Parental Socialization." American Politics Quarterly 10 (2): 139-157
16. Davison, A. C., and D. V. Hinkley. 1997. Bootstrap Methods and their Application. New York: Cambridge University Press.
17. Erikson, Erik H. 1968. Identity: Youth and Crisis. New York: Norton.
18. Gimpel, James G., J. Celeste Lay, and Jason E. Schuknecht. 2003. Cultivating Democracy: Civic Environments and Political Socialization in America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute.
19. Glass, Jennifer, Vern L. Bengtson, and Charlotte Chorn Dunham. 1986. "Attitude Similarity Three Generation Families: Socialization, Status Inheritance, or Reciprocal Influence?" American Sociological Review 51 (5): 685-698
20. Jennings, M. Kent. 1984. "The Intergenerational Transfer of Political Ideology in Eight Western Nations," European Journal of Political Research 12 (3): 261-276
21. Jennings, M. Kent. 1989. "The Crystallization of Orientations." In Continuities in Political Action, eds. M. Kent Jennings, Jan van Deth, et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 313-348
22. Jennings, M. Kent, and Richard G. Niemi. 1968. "The Transmission of Political Values from Parent to Child. American Political Science Review 62 (1): 169-184
23. Jennings, M. Kent, and Richard G. Niemi. 1974. The Political Character of Adolescence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
24. Mannheim, Karl. [1928] 1972. "The Problem of Generations." In Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge, ed. P. Keckemeti. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 276-320.
25. Martin, N. G., L. J. Eaves, A. C. Heath, Rosemary Jardine, Lynn M. Feingold, and H. J. Eysenck. 1986. "Transmission of Social Attitudes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 83: 4364-4368
26. Miller, Warren E., and J. Merrill Shanks. 1996. The New American Voter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Percheron, Annick, and M. Kent Jennings. 1981. "Political Continuities in French Families: A New Perspective on an Old Controversy." Comparative Politics 13 (3): 421-436
28. Raudenbush, Stephen W., and Anthony S. Bryk. 2002. Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
29. Sears, David O. 1983. "The Persistence of Early Political Predispositions: The Roles of Attitude Object and Life Stage." In Review of Personality and Social Psychology, vol.4, ed. Ladd Wheeler and Paul Shaver. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 79-116.
30. Sears, David O., and Carolyn Funk. 1999. "Evidence of the Long- Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions" Journal of Politics 61 (1): 1-28.
31. Sears, David O., and Nicholas A. Valentino. 1997. "Politics Matters: Political Events as Catalysts for Preadult Socialization." American Political Science Review 91 (1): 45-65.
32. Stoker, Laura, and M. Kent Jennings. 2005. "Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives." In The Logic of Politics: Personal Networks as Contexts for Political Behavior, ed. Alan S. Zuckerman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 51-74.
33. Stoker, Laura, and M. Kent Jennings. 2008. "Of Time and Partisan Polarization." American Journal of Political Science 52 (3): 619-635
34. Tedin, Kent L. 1974. "The Influence of Parents on the Political Attitudes of Adolescents." American Political Science Review 68 (4): 1579-1592
35. Tedin, Kent L. 1980. "Assessing Peer and Parent Influence on Adolescent Political Attitudes." American Journal of Political Science 24 (1): 136-154
36. Tims, Albert R. 1986. "Family Political Communication and Social Values." Communication Research 13 (1): 5-17. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. 1999. The Civic Development of 9th-Through 12th- Grade Students in the United States:1996, NCES 1999-131 (Ed. Richard G. Niemiand Chris Chapman). Washington, DC.
37. Valentino, Nicholas, and David O. Sears. 1998. "Event-Driven Political Socialization and the Preadult Socialization of Partisanship." Political Behavior 20 (2): 127-154
38. Westholm, Anders. 1999. "The Perceptual Pathway: Tracing the Mechanism of Political Value Transfer across Generations." Political Psychology 20 (3): 525-552
39. Westholm, Anders, and Richard G. Niemi. 1992. "Political Institutions and Political Socialization." Comparative Politics 25 (1): 25-41.