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...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Germany
German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin
May 26, 2016
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| Series: | SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research
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SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research (845)
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/142753 Verlag, Volltext: http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.535423.de 
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| Author Notes: | Alexandra Avdeenko, Thomas Siedler |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |