Inheritance and the dynamics of party identification

Political Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 559-574

  Kroh, Martin ^a   Selb, Peter ^b  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel model; Germany; Inheritance; Intergenerational transmission; Party identification; Socialization; State dependence; Trait dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956351561     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-009-9084-2     Document Type: Article

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