Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Jennings, Stoker (2008) Politics Across Generations: FamilyTransmission Reexamined

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Four conclusions: (1) despite changes in environment (technology etc) parental influence is as strong in the 90s as in was in the 60s (2) t...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

McAdam, Doug. (1989) The Biographical Consequences of Activism

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McAdam, Doug, The Biographical Consequences of Activism (1989) Research Question: What happens to individuals who experience dangerous forms...

Alwin, Cohen, and Newcomb. (1991) Political Attitudes over the Lifespan: The Bennington Women after Fifty Year

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Alwin, Cohen, and Newcomb. (1991). Political Attitudes over the Lifespan: The Bennington Women after Fifty Years. Madison: University of Wis...

Jennings and Stoker (2004) Social Trust and Civic Engagement across Time and Generations

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Background Information: Social capital helps solve collective action problems (macro level) because—the conventional wisdom holds—individual...
Sunday, June 1, 2008

Sears (1990) Whither Political Socialization Research? The Question of Persistence

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THE EARLY YEARS (of political socialization persistence research) Greenstein, Hyman, Easton and Dennis etc. all emphasized the lasting effec...

Sears & Funk (1999) Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions

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Sears and Funk (1999) Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions long term large sample longitudinal Abs...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Mettler & Welch (2004) Civic Generation

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The civic generation came of age during the Depression and WWII. They are a highly civically engage generation--yet why? In the wake of a m...