INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF POLITICAL-PARTY PREFERENCE IN THE NETHERLANDS

This article examines the intergenerational transmission of political party preference by analyzing data from a national representative survey of high school students in the Netherlands in 1991 (N = 5,148). Multinominal logistic diagonal reference models are applied to analyze the data. In general, no difference is found between the relative influence of father's and mother's political party preference. However, father's party preference has more of an effect on son's party preference than mother's, while mother's party preference has more impact on daughter's party preference than father's. Finally, contrary to our hypothesis, the chance of children with politically heterogeneous parents having a political party preference is no less than that of children of politically homogeneous parents. (C) 1995 Academic Press, Inc.