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Families' Values: How Parents, Siblings, and Children Affect Political Attitudes
Families' Values: How Parents, Siblings, and Children Affect Political Attitudes
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One of the central questions in politics is from where people derive their tastes and opinions. Why do some people embrace the free market, while others prefer an interventionist state? From where do preferences for a vigorous foreign policy or for sterner policing of moral issues come? As has
been shown, political preferences may be influenced by perceived benefits, the media, or public intellectuals, but less is known about the influence of family on political attitudes. Some mechanisms of family influence are well-known: people tend to share their parents' political philosophies, while
those with young children have heightened concern for child-related policies such as education. But family dynamics are likely to have far richer and more varied effects on political attitudes than those traditionally considered. Families' Values considers the ways that the everyday behaviors of family members systematically and unconsciously influence political preferences. For example, does having a mother who works outside the home lead children, when grown-up, to have more liberal ideologies? Or, might having a son who
could potentially be drafted into the armed forces influence a parent to become a pacifist? Drawing on surveys from the United States and the United Kingdom, R. Urbatsch looks at the ways in which parents, siblings, birth order, gender, and socioeconomics influence opinions on issues from war, to
the welfare state, to abortion. Through compelling analysis, he demonstrates that our family relationships play an enormously crucial and multi-faceted role in the way that we experience, learn about, and practice politics.
Author: R. Urbatsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2014
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199373604
Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1235
been shown, political preferences may be influenced by perceived benefits, the media, or public intellectuals, but less is known about the influence of family on political attitudes. Some mechanisms of family influence are well-known: people tend to share their parents' political philosophies, while
those with young children have heightened concern for child-related policies such as education. But family dynamics are likely to have far richer and more varied effects on political attitudes than those traditionally considered. Families' Values considers the ways that the everyday behaviors of family members systematically and unconsciously influence political preferences. For example, does having a mother who works outside the home lead children, when grown-up, to have more liberal ideologies? Or, might having a son who
could potentially be drafted into the armed forces influence a parent to become a pacifist? Drawing on surveys from the United States and the United Kingdom, R. Urbatsch looks at the ways in which parents, siblings, birth order, gender, and socioeconomics influence opinions on issues from war, to
the welfare state, to abortion. Through compelling analysis, he demonstrates that our family relationships play an enormously crucial and multi-faceted role in the way that we experience, learn about, and practice politics.
Author: R. Urbatsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2014
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199373604
Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1235
About the Author
R. Urbatsch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University.
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