Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young people's right-wing extremism are parents' right-wing extremist attitudes. While intergenerational associations in attitudes towards immigration are equally high for sons and daughters, we find a positive intergenerational transmission of right-wing extremist party affinity for sons, but not for daughters. Compared to the intergenerational correlation of other party affinities, the high association between fathers' and sons' right-wing extremist attitudes is particularly striking.
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2015
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Authors: | Avdeenko, Alexandra ; Siedler, Thomas |
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Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Subject: | political preferences | extremism | gender differences | longitudinal data | intergenerational links |
Saved in:
freely available
Series: | IZA Discussion Papers ; 9356 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 837256852 [GVK] hdl:10419/124869 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp9356 [RePEc] |
Classification: | C23 - Models with Panel Data ; D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; P16 - Political Economy |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401618