Political socialization in flux?: linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Child- hood to Adult Civic Engagement

Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in traditional family structures. In this paper, we seek to c...

Processes of Political Socialization: A Communication Mediation Approach to Youth Civic Engagement

By analyzing data from a national panel survey of adolescents (ages 12-17) and their parents conducted around the 2008 general election, this study explores the varied roles communication plays in socializing youth into democratic citizenship. In particular, we propose and test a communication mediation model of youth socialization, in which interdependent communication processes located in the...

Witnessing Political Protest on Civic Engagement∗

How does physically witnessing a protest in a democratic society affect citizens in authoritarian societies? Existing data are unable to answer the question by failures to capture witnesses, to construct meaningful comparison groups and to obtain information on pre-protest political behaviors. Using a quasi-experiment design, we report a first causal estimation on impact of 13 protests in Hong ...

Political Theory, Political Science, And The End Of Civic Engagement

Political consumerism: Civic engagement and the social media connection

An ongoing debate concerns the extent to which political consumerism constitutes political behavior. To address this debate, researchers have examined several predictors of political consumerism, but have not focused on its communicative dimensions, especially with respect to digital media. In this study we conceptualize political consumerism as a form of civic engagement, and we theorize that ...