Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right‐Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration

Alexandra Avdeenko and Thomas Siedler

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, vol. 119, issue 3, 768-800

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right‐wing preferences and attitudes toward 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 their parents' right‐wing extremist attitudes. While intergenerational associations in attitudes toward 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.

Date: 2017
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Working Paper: Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration (2016)
Working Paper: Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration (2015)
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