This article examines the extent to which political socialization accounts for generational
differences in electoral participation found in recent studies. Political socialization is defined …

Research shows that parents have a strong influence on the party preferences of their
children. Yet little is known about how such preferences are transmitted in multiparty …

For empirical social sciences, the issue of the stability of political orientation and attitudes on
a personal level and of the validity of the instruments used to measure this stability is of …

Should 16-year-olds be entitled to participate in elections? We theorize that mock elections
for adolescents, who are not eligible to vote, affect the short-term support among the general …

This article proposes to get a better understanding of the way the relationship to voting
develops during adolescence in order to be able, possibly, to identify the means to ease the …

Existing literature assumes a link between voting and individuals' political socialization, but
no study has explored how political upbringing affects the most important attitudinal …

This article exploits variation in age among first‐time eligible citizens in Norwegian elections
that arises through voting eligibility rules and two‐year election cycles to investigate voting …

Little is known about the outcome of political socialization processes among youths and
young adults of the age between 17 and 24 in Germany. Our central aim is to identify which …

Focusing on youth attitudes during a time of political upheaval in Catalonia, we study 1,438
high school students, aged 15 to 16, nested within 30 high schools. Using multilevel …

Objectives. Kids Voting USA is a program designed to educate schoolchildren about the
democratic process and foster their political socialization. This article set out to explore the …