Political interest is the strongest predictor of'good citizenship', yet hardly anything is known about it. For the first time in over three decades, here is a study explaining what political …
What can sociology tell us about our personal lives, families and intimate relationships? This book explains how key theoretical perspectives and relevant contemporary research in the …
Recent research about the decision to vote or abstain finds a causal effect of social networks and social pressure. Yet this literature does not examine how this social pressure is exerted …
The unusual size and persistence of the gender gap in political knowledge is perplexing in comparison to other dimensions of politics. Building on situational explanations of political …
E Swank, B Fahs - Journal of Homosexuality, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the relationship between sexual orientations and the protest actions of adults in the United States. Drawing from General Social Survey data from 1996 to 2004 …
Stable partisanship in the United States is often attributed to attachments to political parties that become slowly and incrementally stronger with age. Here, I show that switches in …
F Facchini, L Jaeck - Rationality and Society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
What is the theoretical impact of the erosion of partisan ties on electoral abstention? This question comes from Downs–North's theory of political ideology, which is a tool to reduce …
Y Kim, H Stattin - Journal of applied developmental psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
It has been commonly assumed that post-adolescent youth have fewer political discussions with parents than do adolescents, due to transitional events in young adulthood and the …
S Dahlberg, U Mörkenstam - Electoral Studies, 2019 - Elsevier
The state of knowledge on which factors that affect voter turnout in parliamentary elections is exceptionally good, and a distinction is often made between individual factors, contextual …