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Families' Values - How Parents, Siblings, and Children Affect Political Attitudes (Hardcover)
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Families' Values - How Parents, Siblings, and Children Affect Political Attitudes (Hardcover)
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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 in 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 like education. But family
members are likely to have far richer and more varied effects than
those traditionally considered.
Families' Values considers the ways that the everyday behavior of
family members systematically and unconsciously influence political
preferences. For example, does having a mother who works outside
the home lead children to, when grown, 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,
the book 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. It demonstrates that family
relationships play a crucial and multi-faceted role in the way that
people experience, learn about, and practice politics.
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