Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 845

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
• Subject: political preferences ; extremism ; gender differences ; longitudinal data ; intergenerational links

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Avdeenko, Alexandra ; Siedler, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/142753
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET