Constrained Parents, Socialized Children: The Role of Ideological Consistency in Intergenerational Transmission of Political Attitudes

• In Event: Values, Belief Systems, and Political Socialization

Brief Overview

Using data on parents and their children spanning from 1972 through 2018 I demonstrate that the more ideologically constrained a parent’s political attitudes are the more successful they are passing on their political attitudes to their children.

Author

• Clinton Jenkins, Birmingham Southern College