Voting Behavior of Immigrants and Their Children in Sweden

We still know remarkably little about the voting behavior of immigrant populations, and in particular, children immigrants – who grow up same society as their contemporaries, but may be subject to different patterns socialization. This article uses verified Swedish municipal elections offer at least two new perspectives on these questions. First, we are able separate out impacts family socialization, general societal citizenship acquisition electoral participation. Second, also add our knowledge differences political participation levels between groups foreign-background voters.