Family ties and political participation

Arbeitspapier

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper we contribute to the investigation of the origin and evolution of social capital over time. We establish these results using within country evidence and looking at the behavior of immigrants from various countries in 32 different destination places.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4150

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: Family ties ; trust ; culture ; Familiensoziologie ; Partizipation ; Vertrauen ; Social Capital ; Migranten ; Kulturpsychologie ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Alesina, Alberto ; Giuliano, Paola
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35418
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090513486
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET