Family Ties and Political Participation

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

Scholarly Articles from Harvard University Department of Economics

Abstract: We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagement and political participation. We also show that strong family ties appear to be a substitute for generalized trust, rather than a complement to it. These three constructs-civic engagement, political participation, and 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. We establish these results using within-country evidence and looking at the behavior of immigrants from various countries in 32 different destination places.

Date: 2011
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Published in Journal of the European Economic Association

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Journal Article: FAMILY TIES AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION (2011)
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