FAMILY TIES AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola
• 署名单位: Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01024.x
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 817-839
• 关键词: cultural transmission; western-europe

摘要

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, and transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagement and political participation. We also show that strong family ties appear to be a substitute for generalized trust, rather than a complement to it. These three constructs-civic engagement, political participation, and trust-are part of what is known as social capital; therefore, in this paper, we contribute to the investigation of the origin and evolution of social capital. We establish these results using within-country evidence and looking at the behavior of immigrants from various countries in 32 different destination places (JEL: P16, Z10, Z13).