Political Socialization

Political Socialization in International Perspective

E way in which the schools relate to the political system is through the political socialization of children and youth. 1 The schools the curriculum, the textbooks, the instructional methods, the school clubs, the classroom milieu, the students, the teach ers, the administrative structure, and the like may implicitly or explicitly engage in the transmission of basic political orientations towar...

Democratic Political Socialization on University Campuses

This paper intends to contextualize early research on political socialization with recent developments that provide new considerations for the transmission of democratic political learning at a more advanced learning stage. It attempts to demonstrate this literature on political socialization as the foundation for evaluating the continuing research of the Penn Democracy Project in the field of ...

Political Socialization and the Future of Politics

It is clear that generational replacement is one of the main driving forces for social and political change in liberal democracies. While there is considerable consensus about the observation that the political attitudes and behaviors of young people differ significantly from those of earlier cohorts, there is disagreement about how this observation should be interpreted. Some authors worry abo...

Residential Concentration, Political Socialization, and Voter Turnout

Although many have hypothesized that neighborhoods and social context are important influences on the decision to vote, the data to study these phenomenon have often been inadequate. We examine a unique source of data, registered voter lists, from a rich variety of locations that allow us to tap into this social participation dynamic using a multilevel research design. We find that neighborhood...

Political Socialization in the Twenty-first Century: Recommendations for Researchers