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Political Socialization and Intergenerational Stability inPolitical Attitudes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

David Marsh
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Political socialization research has been characterized by a number of poorly documented but widely accepted generalizations. In particular, it has been assumed that indetgenarational consistency in political attitudes is the usual, if not the inevitable, outcome of the political socialization process in Western democracies.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 509 - 516
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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11 My own data are of this type.

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